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Kennan is a realist, a conservative, a pragmatist, and a pessimist. All three traits shape his attitudes towards foreign policy. He distrusts revolution, idealism, pure theory and optimism. He puts his trust in stability, and elitism; and he thinks American interests should decide policy. Practical as well as scholarly experience, he believes, is necessary to understand international affairs properly. His realism is rooted in a pessimism that almost always recognizes the worst-case scenario and rejects strategies based on hope. The result of Kennan’s pessimism is a cautionary foreign policy based on realistic limitations. |
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Name: Southwestern Political Science Association
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| Lorio, David. "American Pessimist: George F. Kennan as Realist" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, Fairmont Hotel, Mar 23, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p88926_index.html> |
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| Lorio, D. , 2005-03-23 "American Pessimist: George F. Kennan as Realist" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, Fairmont Hotel Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p88926_index.html |
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Abstract: Kennan is a realist, a conservative, a pragmatist, and a pessimist. All three traits shape his attitudes towards foreign policy. He distrusts revolution, idealism, pure theory and optimism. He puts his trust in stability, and elitism; and he thinks American interests should decide policy. Practical as well as scholarly experience, he believes, is necessary to understand international affairs properly. His realism is rooted in a pessimism that almost always recognizes the worst-case scenario and rejects strategies based on hope. The result of Kennan’s pessimism is a cautionary foreign policy based on realistic limitations. |
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| American Pessimist: George F. Kennan as Realist A Paper Presented at the Annual Southwest Political Science Association Conference New Orleans LA 24 March 2005 David K. Lorio Lecturer of Political Science Texas State University-San Marcos Ambassador George F. Kennan died last week at the age of one hundred and one years. Obituaries note his role as His Foreign a Foreign Service Officer and Cold Warrior. Affairs article "The Sources of Soviet Conflict" never goes unmentioned. Academically much ink has |
| 2002. Kennan George. American Diplomacy. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 1984. ______________ At a Century's Ending: Reflections 1982 1995. New York: W.W. Norton 1996. ______________ "Spy and Counterspy." The New York Times 18 May 1997 Diplomacy. New York: Touchstone 1994 Kissinger Henry. A World Restored. Boston: Houghton _________________ Mifflin 1957. Mayer Jane. "The Talk of the Town: A Doctrine Passes." The New Yorker 14 October 2002. Miscamble Wilson D. George F. Kennan and the Making of American |
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