The large economic costs of full-blown lockdowns in response to COVID-19 outbreaks, coupled with heterogeneous mortality rates across age groups, led to question non-discriminatory containment ...

2019-03-30T10:29:58-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/1a7/20190330110046003_hd.jpgWen-Qing Ngoei is author of Arc of Containment: Britain, the United States, and ...

In 1947, George F Kennan, a former US diplomat, articulated the idea of ‘containment’, which meant that the US foreign policy should focus on long-term but firm and vigilant containment of Russian ...

To help readers better understand the nuances of foreign policy, CFR staff writers and Consulting Editor Bernard Gwertzman conduct in-depth interviews with a wide range of international experts, as ...

Russia warned Wednesday that it could start pursuing a "policy of active containment" on the US if Washington continued its pressure on Moscow. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said in an ...

In what may have been her last meeting with a group of her Arab counterparts, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has offered an "American umbrella" against a possible nuclear threat from Iran. The ...

As the presidential campaigns launch into full swing, there is little doubt that debating the effectiveness of U.S. efforts to combat ISIS will take center stage. Critics of the current administration ...

The West faces mounting evidence that Iran is getting closer to possessing nuclear weapons capability. In violation of six United Nations resolutions, Tehran continues to enrich uranium. According to ...

Sanctions may slow Iran’s nuclear drive but won’t halt it, says Iran expert Karim Sadjadpour, who calls for shifting to a containment policy that helps "expedite political transformation." To help ...

GEORGE F. Kennan did not consider his original concept of containment to be applicable to China. But if the legendary Soviet expert were alive today, he might well endorse a strategy aimed at limiting ...

THE world leaders, American politicians and intellectuals who clamor for isolating Russia — whether through sanctions or exclusion from international meetings such as the G-8 — advocate a misguided ...

Texas A&M University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. The United States is not trying to contain China’s rise. But you would never know it from reading Chinese domestic ...