President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Michael Anton to be the State Department’s director of policy and planning bodes well for the country’s foreign policy as we enter what could be some of the ...

Few today recall that America’s winning Cold War strategy against the Soviet Union was centered on a strategic framework much bigger than just military might and yet underpinned all statecraft and ...

Historian Wallance (The Woman Who Fought an Empire) delivers a riveting biography of American journalist George Kennan (1845–1924), who traveled in Siberia and investigated czarist Russia’s ...

Both George Kennan '25 — the diplomat whose containment strategy guided the U.S. through the Cold War — and Yale University diplomatic historian John Lewis Gaddis are known for their tough-minded ...

George Kennan, the great statesman and visionary, whose 100th birthday Princeton celebrates this week, was a miserable outcast as an undergraduate. His experience is worth remembering, especially two ...

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Frank Costigliola, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Connecticut, to discuss his new book, Kennan: A Life between Worlds.

The recent negative trajectory in U.S.-China relations underscores a profoundly important question: is peaceful coexistence between the two countries still possible and achievable? Or are the United ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Grace Kennan Warnecke is a Daughter of George Kennan with three videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2018 Speech. Most common tag: Cold War. Grace ...

George Frost Kennan, who died last week in Princeton, N.J., at 101, was an insecure outsider from Milwaukee, Wis., who was embraced, in ways that sometimes made him squirm, by the clubby coterie of ...