Containment is hardly a relic of the Cold War.

After all, Cold War containment of the USSR meant virtually no trade and little social contact.

For more than 40 years, the Cold War policy of containment of Soviet influence provided America its strategic framework.

In the run up to the Iraq invasion, the Bush administration rejected containment as an obsolete Cold War hangover.

But these earlier disputes occurred within a very different geopolitical context the Cold War and the bygone intellectual and political framework of containment.

American policy makers in 1947 48 agreed that the highest foreign policy objective was containment of Soviet expansion as the Cold War unfolded.

Containment was unfeasible, because, unlike the Soviet Union during the Cold War, China s neighbors did not see it as a clear and present danger.

Only the weakest of Asian states will submit willingly to Chinese hegemony or, for that matter, to a Cold War style US led containment strategy.

Fortunately, once in office, the Eisenhower administration had the sense to stick with containment in Europe, continuing a policy that is widely credited for winning the Cold War.

A Cold War style confrontation and containment policy from the West will be met with strong resistance from the Chinese, whose global leverage, particularly in finance, cannot be ignored.

With the end of the Cold War, the containment of the Soviet Union ushered in by Kissinger s visit could no longer serve as the basis for US China relations.

Its leaders will again suggest that a policy of containment is being pursued, and that this Cold War strategic concept is inimical to peaceful development in the Western Pacific.

Containment, not Appeasement

Containment Begins at Home

That strategy is containment.

In 1947, in a landmark article, The Sources of Soviet Conduct, which he signed as X, George Kennan defined America s foreign policy strategy for the Cold War as one of containment and deterrence.

The Containment Debate, Round Two

Appropriate containment techniques may include

Containment against Libya was not appeasement.

Vietnam was America s costliest departure from containment.

Moreover, containment would undermine India s energy interests.

(a) Containment Sites or facilities, fixed or mobile, meeting the criteria of the World Health Organization (WHO) of high or maximum containment for work with human and animal pathogens, or with containment for working with plant diseases

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Nonetheless, the US seems destined to remain the world s most important actor for the foreseeable future. But today it is an actor without a script it lacks a strategic guide comparable to the Cold War s containment doctrine to prioritize policy.

But now we know that the containment regime worked.

When we recall the Cold War, it is important to remember that America's strategy of containment combined the deterrent of its hard military power with the attractiveness of its soft cultural power, which eroded confidence and belief in Communism behind the Iron Curtain.

The Cold War and the Cold Shoulder

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Most governments are hoping that early detection will make containment possible.

When containment has been abandoned, America has paid a high price.

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No State could have achieved this degree of containment on its own.

Be it containment or rollback, the rules of the game should be clear.

Containment depends heavily on vaccines, but vaccines are only part of the answer.

America might speak the language of cooperation, but its real game is containment.

For the US today, containment of Iran is dictated by several geopolitical considerations.

Only China, by its behavior, could organize the containment of China by others.

Stabilization of the problem in the developed world shows that containment is possible.

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Cold Tone

A cold war is not as good as a cold peace, but a cold peace is still better than a hot war.

It is designed to provide a solid containment for the remnants of the reactor.

Measurements were made when the warheads were in various levels of containment and shielding.

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