Foreword
Preface
Introduction: NSC 68: The Theory and Politics of Strategy
PART I. THE DOCUMENT
NSC 68: United States Objectives and Programs for National Security (April 14, 1950)
PART II. COMMENTARIES
1. Biases, Official and Scholarly
2. Eyewitness Testimony
George F. Kennan, Director of the State Department Policy Planning Staff, 1947-1950
Dean Acheson, Secretary of State, 1949-1953
Paul H. Nitze, Director of the State Department Policy Planning Staff, 1950-1953
3. Later Officials' Retrospects
Robert R. Bowie, Director of the State Department Policy Planning Staff, 1953-1957
Carl Kaysen, Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, 1961-1963
Robert D. Blackwill, Assistant to the President for European and Soviet Affairs, 1989-1990
Georgi M. Kornienko, American Expert, Foreign Ministry of the USSR, 1949-1990
4. Interpreters of U.S. Foreign Policy
Realism: Paul Y. Hammond
Revisionism: William Appleman Williams
Neorealism: Samuel F. Wells, Jr.
Postrevisionism: John Lewis Gaddis
Post-Postrevisionism: Lloyd Gardner
5. American Interpreters of American History
U.S. Political History: Alonzo L. Hamby
U.S. Intellectual History: Bruce Kuklick
U.S. Cultural History: Emily S. Rosenberg
6. A World Historian and a Social Scientist
Modern World History: Walter McDougall
International Relations and Foreign Policy Theory: Deborah Welch Larson
7. Foreign Scholars
The United Kingdom: Zara Steiner
Germany: Helga Haftendorn
Norway: Geir Lundestad
Russia: Vladislav Zubok
People's Republic of China: Shu Guang Zhang
8. Afterword
APPENDICES
Chronology of the Cold War, 1944–1954
Some Public Opinion Polls, 1948–1951
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index
The Postwar Division of Europe (map)
The Spread of Communism in China and Korea (map)