The George F. Kennan Chair in Russian and Eurasian Studies stands as a tribute to Kennan’s notable contributions as a leading scholar and statesman. The end of the Cold War unleashed a host of ...

More enduring than all the insights George F. Kennan provided in his seminal essay “The Sources of Soviet Conduct” was one word: containment. This term organized U.S. thought during the ...

(Following are excerpts, from a speech given by University Fellow George F. Kennan Wednesday in Sanders Theater.-- ed.) ...What I am talking about is the guiding motivation of foreign policy at ...

As the Briefing Book put together by Svetlana Savranskaya and Tom Blanton suggests, George F. Kennan’s Long Telegram authored in April 1946 is an obvious contender. Then the chief of ...

Almost alone among the so-called Wise Men of the U.S. foreign policy establishment of the early Cold War years, George F. Kennan had the wisdom to imagine an alternative future to the perpetually ...

"Following the logic of our present policy in Vietnam, it is difficult to conceive to date of an outcome that would be less than disastrous," foreign policy expert George F. Kennan said yesterday.

The American diplomat Professor George Kennan delivers six lectures on the history, impact and possible consequences of current relations between Russia and the West.

Many are now comparing Merry’s cable to George F. Kennan’s Long Telegram in its scope and prescience. Merry tells me he finds such comparisons embarrassing—but they are, in my view ...

George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies Stephen Sestanovich is the George F. Kennan senior fellow for Russian and Eurasian studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and ...