whose gazes oriented outward, across the seas.”įour years later, in Realities of American Foreign Policy, Kennan wrote that the chief threat to the security of the United States was “the association of the dominant portion of the physical resources of Europe and Asia with a political power hostile to ourselves.” Such a threat to U.S. Europe and Asia.” The United States, he continued, must work to ensure the “prosperity and independence of the peripheral powers of Europe and Asia. on an overseas expansion hostile to ourselves and supported by the immense resources of. interests could best be protected, he explained, by “the maintenance of some sort of stable balance among the powers of the interior, in order that none of them should effect the subjugation of the others, conquer the seafaring fringes of the land mass, become a great sea power as well as land power. It was essential to the United States, he wrote, “that no single Continental land power should come to dominate the entire Eurasian land mass.” U.S.
geopolitical interests in terms of classical geopolitics. interests in the Far East with the same perceptiveness and objectivity that characterized most of his writings on Russia and Europe.Īmerican Diplomacy consists of six lectures delivered at the University of Chicago and two articles in Foreign Affairs. Kennan the historian and observer of international affairs, however, addressed the subject of U.S. Indeed, Kennan admitted in his book American Diplomacy that he had no “personal familiarity” with the Far East and was “not an expert on Far Eastern Affairs.” He had very little experience in the Far East, with the exception of writing some confidential policy papers on China, Japan and Korea when he headed the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff and making a trip to Japan in March 1948 to meet with General Douglas MacArthur to discuss postwar occupation policies.
Kennan as a diplomat represented the United States in European nations and Russia. postwar policy of containment toward Soviet communism. Kennan is mostly known for writing the “Long Telegram” from Moscow in February 1946 that warned of the growing Soviet threat to the West, and “The Sources of Soviet Conduct” in 1947 in Foreign Affairs, which explained the U.S. The American diplomat and historian George F.
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