The document that largely defined American foreign policy through the Cold War years was written anonymously by a prickly and melancholic Midwesterner who spent much of the rest of his life disavowing ...

With the resurgence of Russia under Putin after the fall of the Soviet Union, followed by the Russian full invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the United States faces a challenge to provide an ...

The document that largely defined American foreign policy through the Cold War years was written anonymously by a prickly and melancholic Midwesterner who spent much of the rest of his life disavowing ...

When the American diplomat George Kennan developed his policy of containment in the late 1940s, the Soviet Union had just been an ally of the United States in the biggest war ever fought. It had yet ...

First, there was containment—and then there was dual containment. George F. Kennan is credited with the design of containment to limit the geopolitical reach of the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, too ...

“It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union,” George Kennan wrote in 1947, “must be that of long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian ...

A containment strategy for Russia may be morally satisfying, but it fails to acknowledge the end of US supremacy. President Donald Trump’s proposed meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin in ...

Whatever happens in Ukraine, America and Russia are now set for a lengthy period of intense confrontation. U.S. support for Ukraine against Russia’s invasion was entirely justified. But as the ...

As the presidential campaigns launch into full swing, there is little doubt that debating the effectiveness of U.S. efforts to combat ISIS will take center stage. Critics of the current administration ...

MOSCOW/BEIJING, Nov 12 (Reuters) - The most important task for Russia and China is to counter any attempt by the United States to contain their countries, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin ...