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    George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005) was an American diplomat and historian. He was best known as an advocate of a policy of containment...
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    X Article (redirect from Kennan telegram)
    article, formally titled "The Sources of Soviet Conduct", written by George F. Kennan and published under the pseudonym "X" in the July 1947 issue of Foreign...
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  • George F. Kennan: An American Life is a nonfiction book about U.S. diplomat George F. Kennan by John Lewis Gaddis that won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for...
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    removed of the American diplomat and historian George F. Kennan, whose birthday he shared. George Kennan was born in Norwalk, Ohio, and was keenly interested...
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  • Whittlesey and Andrew Gyorgy. As the Cold War began, N.J. Spykman and George F. Kennan laid down the foundations for the U.S. policy of containment, which...
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    basis of the doctrine was articulated in a 1946 cable by U.S. diplomat George F. Kennan during the post-World War II term of U.S. President Harry S. Truman...
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    American diplomat and historian George F. Kennan. George F. Kennan: An American Life (2011), his biography of Kennan, won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for...
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    Union in Moscow as well as during and after World War II. He succeeded George F. Kennan as ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1957. He served as ambassador...
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    named after George Kennan, an American explorer of Russia and the twice removed older cousin of Ambassador George F. Kennan. George F. Kennan is best known...
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    American Foreign Service Association. Retrieved January 31, 2017. "George F. Kennan Strategic Writing Award". "Real Post of the Month". May 14, 2018. Roger...
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  • University. Encyclopædia Britannica. "Zaibatsu". In his 1967 memoirs, George F. Kennan wrote that aside from the Marshall Plan, setting the "reverse course"...
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  • included Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, James Baker III, Margaret Thatcher, and Colin Powell. A second award, the George F. Kennan Award for Distinguished...
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    development in the rise of modern realism. Other influential figures were George F. Kennan (known for his work on containment), Nicholas Spykman (known for his...
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  • proponents of Realpolitik include Otto von Bismarck, Henry Kissinger, George F. Kennan, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Deng Xiaoping, Charles...
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  • Averell Harriman, Special Envoy for President Franklin Roosevelt George F. Kennan, ambassador to the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, State Dept. Director...
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    has chosen them. However, the first recipients selected by President John F. Kennedy before his assassination were formally awarded by his successor in...
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  • leading intellectuals and writers of his era, such as Reinhold Niebuhr, George F. Kennan, Carl Schmitt and Hannah Arendt. At one point in the early Cold War...
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    New?)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-08-19. George F. Kennan, The Marquis de Custine and His Russia in 1839, London 1972. Čubar·Jan...
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    Look or Containment? George F. Kennan and the Making of Republican National Security Strategy" (September 2005). George F. Kennan Papers 1861-2014 (mostly...
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  • was created in 1947 by Foreign Service Officer George F. Kennan at the request of Secretary of State George Marshall to serve "as a source of independent...
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    more popular in academic and foreign policy settings. E. H. Carr, George F. Kennan, Hans Morgenthau, Raymond Aron, and Robert Gilpin are central contributors...
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    magazines 2008: 16th Most Powerful Person in the World, Newsweek 2009: George F. Kennan Award, National Committee on American Foreign Policy 2009: Distinguished...
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    years, until it was exposed in 1952 during the tenure of Ambassador George F. Kennan. The existence of the bug was discovered accidentally in 1951 by a...
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  • American academic George Kennan (explorer) (1845–1924), American explorer of Russia and an early "Russia Expert" George F. Kennan (1904–2005), member...
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    Sobol had “serious mental problems”. Sobol was named a George F. Kennan Scholar by the Kennan Institute, a part of the Washington D.C.–based Wilson Center...
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    implementation of the containment policy suggested by US diplomat George F. Kennan in his Long Telegram of February 1946. The Greek royal government in...
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  • were widely publicized to discredit the Russian Revolution. In 1956, George F. Kennan, in an article in the Journal of Modern History, demonstrated that...
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  •  2017 (2017-08-17) 1.378 "Heroism is endurance for one moment more." – George F. Kennan 45 11 "Tales From the Island" August 17, 2017 (2017-08-17) 0.787...
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    (2012). Robert F. Kennedy and the Shaping of Civil Rights, 1960–1964. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-4943-9. Herring, George C. (2008). From...
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  • Truman approved NSC 10/2 which created the Office of Special Projects. George F. Kennan, the director of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff, was...
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