In Memoriam
George Frost Kennan Feb. 16, 1904 — Mar. 17, 2005 Diplomat, Scholar, Friend
 

Containement

July 1947
The Sources of Soviet Conduct by "X"

July 1977
Containment: A Reassessment by John Lewis Gaddis

Spring 1987
Containment 40 Years Later: Containment Then and Now by George F. Kennan

Other Selected Writings in Foreign Affairs

April 1951 [reprinted in the Spring 1990 issue of Foreign Affairs]
America and the Russian Future by George F. Kennan

January 1964
Polycentrism and Western Policy by George F. Kennan

October 1964
Japanese Security and American Policy by George F. Kennan

October 1967
The Russian Revolution — Fifty Years After: Its Nature and Consequences by George F. Kennan

April 1970
To Prevent a World Wasteland: A Proposal by George F. Kennan

October 1970
Hazardous Courses in Southern Africa by George F. Kennan

October 1972
After the Cold War: American Foreign Policy in the 1970s by George F. Kennan

July 1976
Two Hundred Years of American Policy: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1917-1976 by George F. Kennan

Spring 1982
Nuclear Weapons and the Atlantic Alliance by McGeorge Bundy, George F. Kennan, Robert S. McNamara and Gerard C. Smith

Winter 1984/85
Arms Control: The President's Choice: Star Wars or Arms Control by McGeorge Bundy, George F. Kennan, Robert S. McNamara and Gerard C. Smith

Winter 1985/86
Morality and Foreign Policy by George F. Kennan

Winter 1990/91
Communism in Russian History by George F. Kennan

March/April 1995
On American Principles by George F. Kennan

September/October 1997
Diplomacy Without Diplomats? by George F. Kennan

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