2001. Releases, Administrative Vieles, was später in konkrete Politik umgesetzt wird, wurde hier zuerst erdacht und argumentativ entfaltet. [1] Of Kennan, historian Wilson D. Miscamble remarked "[o]ne can only hope that present and future makers of foreign policy might share something of his integrity and intelligence". Only 4 left in stock - order soon. Im Buch gefunden – Seite 99... George F. Kennan (1904–2005) „The Sources of Soviet Conduct“ aus dem Jahre 1947, in dem dieser, ebenfalls in Foreign Affairs, die Containment-Politik ... Im Buch gefunden – Seite 4Die Politik der Eindämmung (Containment) war die für über vierzig Jahre ... Haupttheoretiker dieser Politik der Eindämmung war George F. Kennan, ... infrequently read. [138][139][140], Historian Wilson D. Miscamble argues that Kennan played a critical role in developing the foreign policies of the Truman administration. [53][54] Acheson did not regard the Soviet "threat" as chiefly political, and he saw the Berlin blockade starting in June 1948, the first Soviet test of a nuclear weapon in August 1949, the Communist revolution in China a month later, and the beginning of the Korean War in June 1950, as evidence. Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Politik - Internationale Politik - Region: USA, Note: 1,3, Universität Rostock (Institut für Politik- und Verwaltungswissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Die Außenpolitik der USA, Sprache: ... a variation of Kennanâs containment policy and made it their own. This achievement alone would qualify him as the most influential American diplomat of the Cold War era. [68] He called U.S policy thinking about Asia as "little promising" and "fraught with danger". In 1957 Kennan was invited by the BBC to give the annual Reith Lectures, a series of six radio lectures which were titled Russia, the Atom and the West. The "Cold War" has been over for a decade and a half, and Russia today is not to be compared with Stalin's Soviet Union. [52] Kennan argued that the American people would sooner or later grow tired of occupying their zone in Germany and would inevitably demand the pull-out of U.S troops. [76] In his memoirs, Kennan recalled, "So far as I could see, we were expecting to be able to gain our objectives ... without making any concessions though, only 'if we were really all-powerful, and could hope to get away with it.' During the 1970s and 1980s, he was a major critic of the renewed arms race as détente was ended. "[95] He also urged the administration to "assure a divergence of outlook and policy between the Russians and Chinese," which could be accomplished by improving relations with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev who had wanted to distance himself from the Communist Chinese. Nitze, who saw the Im Buch gefunden – Seite 227... die Aufgabe der Währungsreform hinter dem politischen Generalergebnis der ... die Bestätigung jener Containment-Politik George F. Kennans in der Form, ... Auf der Potsdamer Konferenz 1945 wurden die unterschiedlichen Interessen der USA und Sowjetunion offensichtlich. In September 1961, Tito held a conference of nonaligned nations, where he delivered speeches that the U.S. government interpreted as being pro-Soviet. Diplomatic Couriers, Guide to Country Recognition and (2012). In unserem Lernshop bieten wir alle Lernmaterialien zu allen Themen auch in unserem Mega-Sparbundle an. "Containment and the Cold War: Reexaming the Doctrine of Containment as a Grand Strategy Driving US Cold War Interventions". Die Irreführung der Öffentlichkeit in Deutschland und im Westen durch die Verwendung eines solchen Ausdrucks in einem Dokument, das außer von Stalin auch von den Herren Truman und Attlee unterzeichnet war, ließ sich selbst mit allergrößter Naivität nicht entschuldigen. In October 1957, Kennan delivered the Reith lectures on the BBC under the title Russia, the Atom and the West, stating that if the partition of Germany continued, then "the chances for peace are very slender indeed". (2) For Kennan's official recommendations regarding containment see his famous "long telegram": The U.S. charge d'affaires in Moscow George Kennan to secretary of state James Byrnes, tel., 22 Feb. 1946. [117] During his career there, Kennan wrote seventeen books and scores of articles on international relations. Drawing on extensive interviews with George Kennan and exclusive access to his archives, an eminent scholar of the Cold War delivers a revelatory biography of its troubled mastermind. [29], The publication of the "X" article soon began one of the more intense debates of the Cold War. [104] More importantly, Kennan noted that Yugoslavia's policy of "market socialism" gave it a higher standard of living than elsewhere in Eastern Europe, that there was greater freedom of expression there than in other Communist nations, and the very existence of a Communist nation in Eastern Europe that was not under the control of the Kremlin was very destabilizing to the Soviet bloc as it inspired other communist leaders with the desire for greater independence. Im Buch gefunden – Seite 297Briefkopf: „Th. Heuss“1 Einschätzung von George F. Kennan; notwendige Zurückhaltung des ... George F. Kennan, einen Vertreter der Containment-Politik. [6][1] He passed the qualifying examination and after seven months of study at the Foreign Service School in Washington he gained his first job as a vice consul in Geneva, Switzerland. [76], In many respects (to Kennan's consternation) the priorities of the administration emphasized creating alliances against the Soviets more than negotiating differences with them. President Josip Broz Tito and his foreign minister, Koča Popović, began to suspect that Kennedy would adopt an anti-Yugoslav policy during his term. Im Buch gefunden – Seite 159Begründet wurden Planungen zur „politischen Kriegführung“, wie die verschiedenen diskutierten Methoden von George F. Kennan als einem der intellektuellen ... During the summer of 1953 President Eisenhower asked Kennan to manage the first of a series of top-secret teams, dubbed Operation Solarium, examining the advantages and disadvantages of continuing the Truman administration's policy of containment and of seeking to "roll back" existing areas of Soviet influence. Timeline, Biographies It assigns half of Europe by implication to the Russians...The future of Berlin is vital to the future of Germany as a whole: the needs of its people and the extreme insecurity of the Western position there alone would constitute reasons why no one in the West should view the present division of Germany as a satisfactory permanent solution even if no other factors are involved". Within a year he was transferred to a post in Hamburg, Germany. StudentPulse.com; Wright, Steven. 21 George F. Kennan.1984. Information, United States Department of His idea was first expressed in his famous Long Telegram from Moscow on February 22, 1946. It is loosely related to the term cordon sanitaire which was later used to describe the geopolitical containment of the Soviet Union in the 1940s. Februar. Kennan explained to his audience that the State Department had the task of providing accurate and timely information that no matter how distasteful and unpalatable it was to some people to the secretary of state and the president so that they could formulate the best foreign policy. During 1928 Kennan considered quitting the Foreign Service to attend college. Kennan believed that a federation needed to be established in western Europe to counter Soviet influence in the region and to compete against the Soviet stronghold in eastern Europe. In his 1968 book Democracy and the Student Left, Kennan attacked the left-wing university students demonstrating against the Vietnam war as violent and intolerant. Som en beskrivelse af amerikansk udenrigspolitik stammer ordet fra en rapport Kennan forelagde den amerikanske forsvarsminister James Forrestal i 1947, som . [20] At the "bottom of the Kremlin's neurotic view of world affairs is the traditional and instinctive Russian sense of insecurity". In February 1966, Kennan testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at the request of the committee's chairman, Senator J. William Fulbright, where he stated that the "preoccupation" with Vietnam was undermining U.S. global leadership. He always regarded himself as an outsider and had little patience with critics. It is possible to say that each succeeding [92], To resolve the "German question", Kennan advocated a version of his "program A" of 1949 calling for the complete withdraw of most of the British, French, American and Soviet forces from Germany as a prelude to German reunification and for the neutralization of Germany. [15][16] In January 1944 he was sent to London, where he served as counselor of the American delegation to the European Advisory Commission, which worked to prepare Allied policy in Europe. Kennan argued that a German "third force" in the Cold War would pose no danger to the United States, while depriving the Soviet Union of reparations from Germany and would be more destabilizing to Eastern Europe than to Western Europe. [50] Though Marshall Plan aid to Greece was successful in building or rebuilding ports, railroads, paved roads, a hydro-electricity transmission system, and a nationwide telephone system, the attempt to impose "good government" on Greece was less successful. According to Kennan, whose concept of American diplomacy was based on the realist approach, such moralism without regard to the realities of power and the national interest is self-defeating and will result in the decrease of American power. Tito and Popović considered Kennedy's decision to observe Captive Nations Week as an indication that the United States would assist anticommunist liberation efforts in Yugoslavia. [88] The fact that a nationalist faction of the Polish Communist Party led by Władysław Gomułka overthrew the Stalinist leadership in Warsaw over the objections of Khrushchev, who was forced to reluctantly accept the change in leadership, led Kennan to predicate that Poland was moving in a "Titoist" direction as Gomułka for his all commitment to Communism also made it clear that he wanted Poland to be more independent of Moscow. [129], In 1989 President George H. W. Bush awarded Kennan the Medal of Freedom, the nation's greatest civilian honor. [65][66] During the Korean War (which began when North Korea invaded South Korea in June 1950), when rumors started circulating in the State Department that plans were being made to advance beyond the 38th parallel into North Korea, an act that Kennan considered dangerous, he engaged in intense arguments with Assistant Secretary of State for the Far East Dean Rusk, who apparently endorsed Acheson's goal to forcibly unite the Koreas.[67]. self-containment a conversation between George Kennan, George Urbán: Gespräche mit Zeitgenossen acht Dispute über Geschichte und Politik mit Raymond Aron, Golo Mann, Leszek Kolakowski, Arnold Toynbee, Luigi Barzini, Milovan Djilas, Zbigniew Brzezinski, George F. Kennan Kennan had observed during 1947 that the Truman Doctrine implied a new consideration of Franco. The Marshall Plan demonstrates that for Kennan and Marshall it was a matter of long-term containment of Russia expansion through peaceful means. England as not as he thought. In 1950, Nitzeâs conception of [131] Foreign Policy described Kennan as "the most influential diplomat of the 20th century". Zitiert nach: G. F. Kennan, Memoiren eines Diplomaten, Stuttgart 1968, S. 262 ff. [134], In February 2004 scholars, diplomats, and Princeton alumni gathered at the university's campus to celebrate Kennan's 100th birthday. "[77], At Moscow, Kennan found the atmosphere even more regimented than on his previous trips, with police guards following him everywhere, discouraging contact with Soviet citizens. Weltpolitik der USA nach 1945- 2012-07-19 1. 1.2.2 Überlegungen zu einer amerikanischen Sowjetpolitik. It is paradoxical that containment, an indisputable cornerstone of American Cold War statecraft, is so widely (and seemingly at times, willingly) misunderstood. [135], Kennan died on March 17, 2005, at his home in Princeton, New Jersey, aged 101. George Frost Kennan (16 Februari 1904 - 17 Maret 2005) adalah penasihat, diplomat, dan sejarawan Amerika Serikat yang dikenal sebagai pengusung kebijakan pembendungan ekspansi Soviet pada akhir Perang Dunia II. Pembendungan adalah strategi dasar luar diikuti oleh Amerika Syarikat semasa Perang Dingin. This was right after the war, and it was absurd to suppose that they were going to turn around and attack the United States. The Soviets then declared Kennan persona non grata and refused to allow him to re-enter the USSR. worldâ through the âadroit and vigilant application of counter-force at a series [125], Containment (1967), when he published the first volume of his memoirs, involved something other than the use of military "counterforce". contribution to the journal Foreign Affairs, the Only 20 left in stock (more on the way). Penulis. [103] In this regard, Kennan reported to Washington that senior Yugoslav officials had told him that Tito's speeches praising the non-aligned movement were just diplomatic posturing that should not be taken too seriously. Ser. In the late 1940s, George Kennan wrote two documents, the "Long Telegram" and the "X Article", which set forward the strategy of containment that would define US policy toward the Soviet Union for the next four decades. differentiate between vital and peripheral interests. Containment adalah strategi kebijakan luar negeri diikuti oleh Amerika Serikat selama Perang Dingin. [69] The "five industrialized zones" were the United States; Great Britain; Japan; the Soviet Union; and the area around the Rhine river valley, namely the Rhineland and the Ruhr regions of Germany, eastern France, and the Low Countries. During the Presidency of Bill Clinton, American diplomacy represented the Wilsonian school to such a degree that those instead in favor of realism likened President Clinton's policies to social work. The state of world politics in 1947 was completely different than it is now. Kennan wrote that most of the demands of the student radicals were "gobbledygook" and he charged that their political style was marked by a complete lack of humor, extremist tendencies and mindless destructive urges. ISBN -226-43147-9; Pieper, Moritz A. Containment is a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States. In contrast, Kennan, who considered the Soviet threat to be primarily Russia, the atom and the West by Kennan G. F ( Book ) 47 editions published between 1957 and 1974 in 3 languages and held by 1,321 WorldCat member libraries worldwide. The American People. There were some exceptions as Kennan regarded Latin America as being in the American sphere of influence as he felt that Washington should inform the leaders of the Latin American republics that they should "be careful not to wander too far from our side". In the late 1940s, George Kennan wrote two documents, the "Long Telegram" and the "X Article," which set forward the strategy of containment that would define U.S . Department, Buildings of the Vol. [144], "George Kennan" redirects here. Current purposes". From containment to . At the same time, Kennan stated that based upon his visits to South Africa: "I have a soft spot in my mind for apartheid, not as practiced in South Africa, but as a concept". Det ville derfor for USA være umuligt at opnå en varig og stabil . I'm wondering why he reversed. [21], Soviet international behavior depended mainly on the internal necessities of Joseph Stalin's regime; according to Kennan, Stalin needed a hostile world in order to legitimize his autocratic rule. the eventual âliberationâ of Eastern Europe. George Frost Kennan (født 16. februar 1904, død 17. marts 2005) var en politisk rådgiver, diplomat, politolog og historiker fra USA. One man who had first hand knowledge was a Foreign Service officer, George F. Kennan. Because of the importance of the Suez canal as the waterway for oil tankers, Kennan declared his belief that Suez canal had to be under control of Western powers as it was too dangerous to give someone like Nasser the power to shut down the Suez canal. Kennan then stated: "Now, gentlemen, I don't know exactly what John Quincy Adams had in mind when he spoke those words. [107] President Johnson was so annoyed by the hearings called by his friend-turned-foe Fulbright that he tried to upstage them by holding a sudden and unannounced summit in Honolulu starting on 5 February 1966 with Chief of State Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ of South Vietnam, where he declared that the United States was making excellent progress in Vietnam and was committed to social and economic reforms. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. so-called âX-Article.â âThe main element of any United States policy toward the [36], Additionally, the administration made few attempts to explain the distinction between Soviet influence and international Communism to the U.S. public. Kennan opposed the Clinton administration's war in Kosovo and its expansion of NATO (the establishment of which he had also opposed half a century earlier), expressing fears that both policies would worsen relations with Russia.