George Kennan is considered a singular figure in U.S. diplomatic history. In a life that spanned 101 years—from the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt to that of George W. Bush—he won the Pulitzer and ...

Sign up to receive our latest updates! When Kissinger became national security adviser and later secretary of state, Kennan occasionally traveled to Washington at ...

The world, or rather the declining portion of it that has heard of him, thinks it knows George F. Kennan. In the public memory, Kennan was America's man in the USSR, the diplomat who, after World War ...

On Friday morning on the Senate floor, Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona argued passionately against Senate ratification of New START. This treaty—a follow-up to different versions of START signed by George ...

“It isn’t easy being George Kennan,” a neighbor of the diplomat reports, some 600 pages into John Lewis Gaddis’s new biography. Indeed it wasn’t: Kennan was a curmudgeon too old for his times even in ...

George Frost Kennan’s status as a major figure in world history comes from his role in crafting postwar foreign policy, making him a sort of founding father of the American century. A diplomat whose ...

Few today recall that America’s winning Cold War strategy against the Soviet Union was centered on a strategic framework much bigger than just military might and yet underpinned all statecraft and ...

WINTER GARDEN, FL--(Marketwired - Dec 9, 2015) - The decision to feature Kennan Burch and the company he founded, Brand Catalyst Partners, (www.brandcatalystpartners.com) in the December 2015 issue of ...

George Kennan, the American diplomat and scholar who died on Thursday aged 101, was an authority on Russia and had a crucial influence on his nation's foreign policy during the years of the Cold War.

Henry Kissinger has publicly described two things as brilliant recently: Herman Cain’s smoking ad, and George Kennan’s life. The former comment came during a meeting early this month, the latter in an ...