In recent years, the concept of "containment" has made a surprising comeback in U.S. foreign policy circles, with strategists proposing a "New Containment" strategy aimed at Russia and China.

Brands offers sharp Cold War insights but leans to US centrism, overlooking Global South impacts and alternative perspectives ...

The tensions and conflicts of the Cold War were the result of this. The first time this tension became clear was during the conferences the Allies held near the end of World War Two. At these ...

Kennan's observations led to the American policy of Soviet containment, which was formalized ... Soviet Communism soon dominated Eastern Europe. The Cold War had begun.

It applies the realism doctrine of the Cold War long past its expiration date ... would create a stable equilibrium with sufficient containment and deterrence. In any case, there was nowhere ...

Dwight D. Eisenhower ran on the campaign of active Cold War containment, pledging “I shall go to Korea” to secure “an early and honorable” peace. Challenges: In 1957, the Soviet Sputnik—the world’s ...

Challenges: The Cold War began when World War II ended, and in 1947, Harry S. Truman formally committed the United States to the containment of Soviet expansionism in Europe. In 1947, the North ...