John Lewis Gaddis
Biographic Data
| ID | 534243 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Lewis Gaddis |
| GIVEN NAMES | John Lewis |
| FAMILY NAME | Gaddis |
| SIGNATURE | GADDIS J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ohio University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 71 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 424 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 71 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age
Financing a Foreign War: Jacob H. Schiff and Japan, 1904-05
Reply to the Commentaries
Nine experts on Cold War history offer commentaries about John Lewis Gaddis's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of George F. Kennan, the first head of the U.S. State Department's Policy Planning Staff. The commentators come from several countries and offer a wide range of perspectives about Gaddis's George F. Kennan: An American Life, published by Penguin Books in 2011. Although most of the commentators express highly favorable assessments of the …
An Inquiry into History, Big History, and Metahistory
What is history anyway? Most people would say it's what happened in the past, but how far back does the past extend? To the first written sources? To what other forms of evidence reveal about pre-literate civilizations? What does that term mean -an empire, a nation, a city, a village, a family, a lonely hermit somewhere? Why stop with people: shouldn't history also comprise the environment in which they exist, and if so on what scale and how far …
War, Peace, and Everything: Thoughts on Tolstoy
What Clausewitz and Tolstoy were trying to do was to derive from the experiences of history the laws governing it. Although they failed, these 19th-century thinkers, each operating from a different perspective, anticipated what we’ve come to call chaos and complexity theory
Response to Painter and Lundestad
I am grateful to the editors of Cold War History for the space they gave to David Painter's and Geir Lundestad's reviews of The Cold War: A New History, and even more so for the opportunity to resp
The Cold War: A New History
Surprise, Security, and the American Experience
September 11, 2001 was not the first time a surprise attack shattered American assumptions about national security and reshaped U.S. grand strategy. How successful our current strategies will be in the face of 21st-century challenges is the question now confronting us. Here, a major scholar of international relations attempts to provide an answer.
Grand Strategy in the Second Term
RECONSIDERATIONS SECOND TERMS in the White House open the way for second thoughts. They provide the least awkward moment at which to re place or reshuffle key advisers. They lessen, although nothing can remove, the influence of domestic political considerations, since re-elected presidents have no next election to worry about. They enhance authority, as allies and adversaries learn-whether with hope or despair-with whom they will have to deal for…
Strategies of containment: A critical appraisal of American national security policy during the Cold War
When Strategies of Containment was first published, the Soviet Union was still a superpower, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, and the Berlin Wall was still standing. This updated edition of Gaddis' classic carries the history of containment through the end of the Cold War. Beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt's postwar plans, Gaddis provides a thorough critical analysis of George F. Kennan's original strategy of containment, NSC-…
Surprise, Security, and the American Experience
Surprise, Security, and the American Experience
Order and Justice in International Relations
The relationship between international order and justice has long been central to the study and practice of international relations. This book sets current interest in that relationship within a broad historical and theoretical context, and underscores the complexity and tensions inherent in agreeing on, establishing, and sustaining a just world order. The chapters examine a wide range of state and transnational perspectives on order and justice …
Bush as Strategist
The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past
PREFACE 1. The Landscape of History 2. Time and Space 3. Structure and Process 4. The Interdependency of Variables 5. Chaos and Complexity 6. Causation, Contingency, and Counterfactuals 7. Molecules with Minds of Their Own 8. Seeing Like a Historian NOTES INDEX
The Land Scape of History: How Historians Map the Past
What is history, and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. The Landscape of History provides a searching look at the historian’s craft, as well as a strong argument for why a historical consciousness should matter to us today. Written in the tradition …
A Grand Strategy of Transformation
The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War
China and the Vietnam Wars, 1950-1975
In the quarter century after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Beijing assisted Vietnam in its struggle against France and the USA. Drawing on newly released Chinese archival sources, memoirs and diaries, and documentary collections, this book offers a comprehensive exploration of Beijing's Indochina policy and the historical, domestic and international contexts within which it developed. Zhai examines China's conduct toward…
Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy since 1945
Introduction by Ernest May 1. 'War No Longer Has Any Logic Whatever': Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Thermonuclear Revolution 2. Longing for International Control, Banking on American Superiority: Harry S Truman's Approach to Nuclear Energy 3. Stalin and the Nuclear Age 4. John Foster Dulles' Nuclear Schizophrenia 5. Bear Any Burden?: John F. Kennedy and Nuclear Weapon 6. The Nuclear Education of Nikita Khrushchev 7. Before the Bomb and After: Wins…
Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy since 1945
History, grand strategy and Nato enlargement
Some principles of strategy are so basic that when stated they sound like platitudes: treat former enemies magnanimously; do not take on unnecessary new ones; keep the big picture in view; balance ends and means; avoid emotion and isolation in making decisions; be willing to acknowledge error. And yet, the Clinton administration's single most important foreign-policy initiative - NATO enlargement - somehow manages to violate every one of these pr…
We now know: Rethinking Cold War history
History, Theory, and Common Ground
July 01 1997 History, Theory, and Common Ground John Lewis Gaddis John Lewis Gaddis John Lewis Gaddis has been Distinguished Professor of History in the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University, and in the fall of 1997 will become Robert Lovett Professor of History at Yale University. His latest book is We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997). Search for other works by this author on: This Site …
History, Theory, and Common Ground
July 01 1997 History, Theory, and Common Ground John Lewis Gaddis John Lewis Gaddis John Lewis Gaddis has been Distinguished Professor of History in the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University, and in the fall of 1997 will become Robert Lovett Professor of History at Yale University. His latest book is We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997). Search for other works by this author on: This Site …
The Long Peace: Elements of Stability in the Postwar International System
International Relations Theory and the End of the Cold War
The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War
The Land Scape of History: How Historians Map the Past
What is history, and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. The Landscape of History provides a searching look at the historian’s craft, as well as a strong argument for why a historical consciousness should matter to us today. Written in the tradition …
The United States and the origins of the cold war, 1941-1947.
"[T]he most satisfactory post-revisionist treatment of American policy making to date."--New York Times Book Review.
A Grand Strategy of Transformation
We now know: Rethinking Cold War history
Expanding the Data Base: Historians, Political Scientists, and the Enrichment of Security Studies
Grand Strategy in the Second Term
RECONSIDERATIONS SECOND TERMS in the White House open the way for second thoughts. They provide the least awkward moment at which to re place or reshuffle key advisers. They lessen, although nothing can remove, the influence of domestic political considerations, since re-elected presidents have no next election to worry about. They enhance authority, as allies and adversaries learn-whether with hope or despair-with whom they will have to deal for…
The United States and the End Of the Cold War: Implications, Reconsiderations, Provocations
In the light of recent events indicating the collapse of the Cold War, this collection of essays by a leading authority on American post-war foreign policy has an added relevance and urgency today. Individual essays discuss the American style of diplomacy in the twentieth century, the ambiguous nature of morality in American foreign policy, the role of intelligence and espionage, the ‘relevance’ of nuclear weapons in post-war diplomacy, revisioni…
Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy
Containment: Documents on American Policy and Strategy, 1945-1950
Toward the Post-Cold War World
Surprise, Security, and the American Experience
Getting the End of the Cold War Wrong
Gaddis has done the field of international relations theory a great service by pointing out that its practitioners were unable to predict the peaceful end of the Cold War. However, I believe that Gaddis has misdiagnosed the problem, and that therefore he has suggested solutions that are unlikely to produce better predictions for theories of international relations in the future. Gaddis argues that the stock of theories available to scholars was l…
Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy since 1945
Russia, the Soviet Union, and the United States: An Interpretive History
Journal Article Russia, the Soviet Union, and the United States: An Interpretive History. By John Lewis Gaddis. (New York: Wiley, 1978. xiii + 309 pp. Notes, bibliographical essay, and index. Cloth, $12.95; paper, $6.95.) Get access Lisle A. Rose Lisle A. Rose Department of State Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 65, Issue 4, March 1979, Pages 1190–1191, https://doi.org/10…
Was the Truman Doctrine a Real Turning Point
The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age
Surprise, Security, and the American Experience
History, Theory, and Common Ground
July 01 1997 History, Theory, and Common Ground John Lewis Gaddis John Lewis Gaddis John Lewis Gaddis has been Distinguished Professor of History in the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University, and in the fall of 1997 will become Robert Lovett Professor of History at Yale University. His latest book is We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997). Search for other works by this author on: This Site …
The Rise, Fall and Future of Détente
Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy
Journal Article Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy. By John Lewis Gaddis. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. XV + 432 pp. Table, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.) Get access Gregg Herken Gregg Herken Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 2, September 1982, Pages 507–509,…
Containment: A Reassessment
History, grand strategy and Nato enlargement
Some principles of strategy are so basic that when stated they sound like platitudes: treat former enemies magnanimously; do not take on unnecessary new ones; keep the big picture in view; balance ends and means; avoid emotion and isolation in making decisions; be willing to acknowledge error. And yet, the Clinton administration's single most important foreign-policy initiative - NATO enlargement - somehow manages to violate every one of these pr…
The United States and the origins of the cold war, 1941-1947.
"[T]he most satisfactory post-revisionist treatment of American policy making to date."--New York Times Book Review.
Cold War Orthodoxy Restated
The Road to Yalta: Soviet Foreign Relations, 1941-1945
American Policy and the Division of Germany: The Clash with Russia over Reparations
Journal Article American Policy and the Division of Germany: The Clash with Russia over Reparations. By Bruce Kuklick. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1972. viii + 286 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliographical note, and index. $9.50.) Get access John Lewis Gaddis John Lewis Gaddis Ohio University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 4, March 1973, Pages 1040–1041, htt…
After Yalta: America and the Origins of the Cold War
Journal Article After Yalta: America and the Origins of the Cold War. By Lisle A. Rose. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973. vi + 216 pp. Notes, bibliographic note, and index. $7.95.) Get access John Lewis Gaddis John Lewis Gaddis Ohio University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 60, Issue 3, December 1973, Pages 855–857, https://doi.org/10.2307/1917767 Published: 01 …
Was the Truman Doctrine a Real Turning Point
Moderation in Pursuit of Truth is No Virtue; Extremism in Defense of Moderation is a Vice
The Politics of TORCH: The Allied Landings and the Algiers Putsch, 1942
Soviet-American Confrontation: Postwar Reconstruction and the Origins of the Cold War by Thomas G. Paterson
Book Review| January 01 1975 Soviet-American Confrontation: Postwar Reconstruction and the Origins of the Cold War by Thomas G. Paterson Soviet-American Confrontation: Postwar Reconstruction and the Origins of the Cold War. By Paterson, Thomas G.. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973. Pp. xiv, 287. $12.00. John Lewis Gaddis John Lewis Gaddis Ohio University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South…
Containment: A Reassessment
Russia, the Soviet Union, and the United States: An Interpretive History
A heritage of harmony, 1781-1867 diverging interest, 1867-1917 the Russian Revolution, 1917-1920 non-recognition, 1920-1933 recognition and disillusionment, 1933-1941 the Grand Alliance, 1941-1945 the origins of the Cold War, 1945-1963 from confrontation to confrontation, 1953-1962 from confrontation to negotiation, 1962-1976 the rise and fall of the second Cold War, 1976-1988.
The Question of Containment: A Reply to John Lewis Gaddis
Russia, the Soviet Union, and the United States: An Interpretive History
The Missile Defense Controversy: Strategy, Technology, and Politics, 1955-1972
Journal Article The Missile Defense Controversy: Strategy, Technology, and Politics, 1955–1972. By Ernest J. Yanarella. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1977. xi + 236 pp. Notes and index. $17.25.) Get access John Lewis Gaddis John Lewis Gaddis Ohio University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 65, Issue 3, December 1978, Pages 831–832, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901…
Containment: Documents on American Policy and Strategy, 1945-1950
Russia, the Soviet Union, and the United States: An Interpretive History
Journal Article Russia, the Soviet Union, and the United States: An Interpretive History. By John Lewis Gaddis. (New York: Wiley, 1978. xiii + 309 pp. Notes, bibliographical essay, and index. Cloth, $12.95; paper, $6.95.) Get access Lisle A. Rose Lisle A. Rose Department of State Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 65, Issue 4, March 1979, Pages 1190–1191, https://doi.org/10…
NSC 68 and the Soviet Threat Reconsidered
Containment: Its Past and Future
Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy
Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy
Journal Article Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy. By John Lewis Gaddis. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. XV + 432 pp. Table, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.) Get access Gregg Herken Gregg Herken Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 2, September 1982, Pages 507–509,…
The Emerging Post-Revisionist Synthesis on the Origins of the Cold War
It is no secret that there was once a certain amount of disagreement among American historians about the origins of the Cold War. A decade ago this subject was capable of eliciting torrents of impassioned prose, of inducing normally placid professors to behave like gladiators at scholarly meetings, of provoking calls for the suppression of unpopular points of view, threats of lawsuits, and, most shocking of all, the checking of footnotes. Today, …
Varieties of Containment
The Rise, Fall and Future of Détente
The Short American Century: The Rise and Decline of American Foreign Policy
The Corporatist Synthesis: A Skeptical View
A few years ago I somewhat unflatteringly—and quite unoriginally, because the terms were actually those of J. H. Hexter—divided my colleagues in the historical profession into “lumpers” and “splitters": those who generalize and those who particularize.1 Historical writing, I suggested, goes through certain predictable phases—historiographical Kondratieff cycles, if you will—in which first lumpers and then splitters prevail over one another. This …
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