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Notes

¹ Harvey M. Sapolsky, Eugene Gholz, and Allen Kaufman. ‘Security Lessons from the Cold War’, Foreign Affairs 78/4 (1999), 77–89. doi:10.2307/20049366.

² Ibid., p. 79.

³ The best study of this issue is Marc Trachtenberg. A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945–1963 (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1999).

⁴ On NATO, see Timothy Andrews Sayle. Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press 2019); on the Marshall Plan, see Ben Steil. The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War (New York: Simon & Schuster 2018).

⁵ Adam Tooze, The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916–1931 (New York: Penguin 2014).

⁶ Philip Zelikow and Condoleeza Rice. To Build a Better World: Choices to End the Cold War and Create a Global Commonwealth (New York: Twelve 2019).

⁷ Felix Gilbert, To the Farewell Address: Ideas of Early American Foreign Policy (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1961).

⁸ Donald R Hickey, ‘The Monroe-Pinkney Treaty of 1806: A Reappraisal’, The William and Mary Quarterly 44/1 (1987), 65–88. doi:10.2307/1939719.

⁹ Thadeus Russell, A Renegade History of the United States: How Drunks, Delinquents, and Other Outcasts Made America (New York: Simon & Schuster 2010).

¹⁰ https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/buildings/section25.

¹¹ A good overview of the history of American foreign relations is George Herring. From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776 (New York: Oxford University Press 2008).

¹² Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy (New York, Simon & Schuster 1995).

¹³ Even a sympathetic biography cannot hide Kennan’s unfortunate views or unpleasant personae, or how at of touch he was with his own country. John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan: An American Life (New York: Penguin Press 2011).

¹⁴ George Packer, Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century (New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2019).

¹⁵ Philip Zelikow, ‘To Regain Policy Competence: The Software of American Public Problem-Solving’, Texas National Security Review 2/4 (2019).

¹⁶ ‘Statement on Education for Public Problem Solving’, https://fsi.stanford.edu/publicproblemsolving/docs/statement-education-public-problem-solving.

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Francis J. Gavin

Francis J. Gavin is the Giovanni Agnelli Distinguished Professor and Director of the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at the School of Advanced International Studies in Johns Hopkins University. He serves as chair of the editorial board of the Texas National Security Review.