New Containment Policy: A Grand Strategy for the Twenty-first Century?
Apr 2008, Vol. 153, No. 2
By Andreas Herberg-Rothe
We are witnessing a worldwide expansion of war and violence, which should be countered by a new policy of containment. George Kennan, architect of the original theory, emphasised as early as 1987 that we needed ‘a wider concept of what containment means … a concept, in other words, more responsive to the problems of our own time’. Sixty years have passed since Kennan formulated his original vision of containment. Although his original concept would be altered in application by various US administrations, in practice it has been incorporated in the concept and politics of common security, which has been the essential complement to purely military containment.
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By Andreas Herberg-Rothe
We are witnessing a worldwide expansion of war and violence, which should be countered by a new policy of containment. George Kennan, architect of the original theory, emphasised as early as 1987 that we needed ‘a wider concept of what containment means … a concept, in other words, more responsive to the problems of our own time’. Sixty years have passed since Kennan formulated his original vision of containment. Although his original concept would be altered in application by various US administrations, in practice it has been incorporated in the concept and politics of common security, which has been the essential complement to purely military containment.
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