C. S. C. Miscamble

George F. Kennan and the Making of American Foreign Policy, 1947-1950 (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

When George C. Marshall became Secretary of State in January of 1947, he faced not only a staggering array of serious foreign policy questions but also a State Department rendered ineffective by neglect, maladministration, and low morale. Soon after his arrival Marshall asked George F. Kennan to head a new component in the department's structure--the Policy Planning Staff. Here Wilson Miscamble scrutinizes Kennan's subsequent influence over foreign policymaking during the crucial years from 1947 to 1950.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780691227993
• Artikelnr.: 60877917

Autorenporträt

Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C., is Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations Used in Text and Notes
Ch. 1
Director of the Policy Planning Staff
3
Ch. 2
Launching the Marshall Plan
43
Ch. 3
Meditertanean Crises: Greece, Italy, and Palestine
75
Ch. 4
The North Atlantic Treaty
113
Ch. 5
The Division of Germany
141
Ch. 6
Titoism, Eastern Europe, and Political Warfare
178
Ch. 7
The Limits of America's China Policy
212
Ch. 8
Japan and Southeast Asia
247
Ch. 9
The Hydrogen Bomb and the Soviet Threat
281
Ch. 10
Korean Dilemmas and Beyond
314
Conclusion: America's Global Planner?
346
Appendix A: Policy Planning Staff Papers, 1947-1949
359

Rezensionen

A good analytical examination of American foreign policy as seen through the lens of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff. . . . As such it embraces much more than the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The author insists that there was no grand design to American policy in these years, but one is impressed by the pervasive and lucid intellect of Ambassador Kennan.