castigliola. the first appeared in the 1997 issue of the journal of american history. and the second appeared just last year in 2016 in the same journal. both of these penetrating articles [ laughter ] sorry, deal with george kennen, soviet russia and the cold war. now we all know that kennen s long-telegraphed, which was sent in february 1946 from moscow to washington and his so-called e articex article embodied the very core of u.s. containment policy to the cold war. these are the documents that frank focuses on and extrapolates from. but his articles are important, both substantively and method logically. first of all, he reexamines kennen s motives and thinking. and in so doing he makes a major methodological contribution. he injects emotion as a major factor to think about when we imagine the formation of policy in the early cold war. rather than the rational realist, frank portrays kennen in all of his humanity, rational? yes. but also insecure. anxious, frustrated. fe
last year in 2016 in the same journal. both of these penetrating articles [ laughter ] sorry, deal with george kennen, soviet russia and the cold war. now we all know that kennen s long-telegraphed, which was sent in february 1946 from moscow to washington and his so-called e articex article embodied the very core of u.s. containment policy to the cold war. these are the documents that frank focuses on and extrapolates from. but his articles are important, both substantively and method logically. first of all, he reexamines kennen s motives and thinking. and in so doing he makes a major methodological contribution. he injects emotion as a major factor to think about when we imagine the formation of policy in the early cold war. rather than the rational realist, frank portrays kennen in all of his humanity, rational? yes. but also insecure. anxious, frustrated. fearful and fearful of seeming fearful. he urges us, frank urges us to ponder the interception of emotion and reason,
solve yes union that was the lifeline for some of these governments, so there was a lot to pay attention to, and the president was predisposed to want to pay a lot of attention to it, but he had to exercise great discipline and set priority. because a jim bakker couldn t be preoccupied with some of these distractions that were not distractions for the people who were hungry, and he would have to send people over to help and make things happen. but there was an awful lot going on. president bush, because he had been as, probably the best trained president ever, he would bring with him, gosh, i would have been paying a lot of attention to this, i want to know about it, i want to get involved, i should know what s going on. and he did want to know what s going on, and he was restrained and saying somebody has to pay attention to this and if it gets to a level, ring my bell. 9. and the story which one hears about the srñjpre[y;ekurj ultim decision-making is aep verqk-f privat
kind or another. many people think they are because population is increasing exponentially. if you look at population trends in many parts of the world the population has birth rates have begun to drop dramatically. i am not convinced this is automatic that there will be these kinds of wars. for that happened there would have to be these huge growths in population and it may be modern technology operating in other ways is contributing to a decline in that. one may offset the other. host: how much if any of the cold war was about natural resources? guest: relatively little. it seems to me very little was about natural resources. the cold war was about telling a power vacuum in europe left by the defeat of hitler. the cold war was later about nuclear-weapons and the means of deterrence and the cold war was about ideologies, capitalism and democracy vs. communism, to some extent the cold war was about personalities. if you think about the other cold war that developed whic
how well do you know your world? i ll share some scary numbers on just how ignorant many americans and others around the world are. also, president obama has been called many things this week, but is he a republican? that is what one prominent conservative says. we will have a spirit ed debate. and the white house has no real solution for syria. the gop doesn t have one either. i will introduce you to a man who says he does, and it does seem to make a lot of sense. but first, here is my take. despite this week s elections, president obama has the opportunity to do big things over the next two years, but they will have to be in the world beyond washington. next week s trip to asia would be a good place to start. in fact, it s odd that obama has not already devoted more time, energy, and attention to foreign policy. it s been clear for a while now that there is no prospect of working with the republican party on any major domestic policy, but if obama seeks some kind of for