1/2 The Kennan Sweepstakes for a Grand Mission. James Astill @TheEconomist

Photo: A containment poster. George Kennan was known above all for his policy of containment:  a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States that's loosely related to the term cordon sanitaire.  "Containment" later was used to describe the geopolitical containment of the Soviet Union in the 1940s. 

1/2   The Kennan Sweepstakes for a Grand Mission. James Astill @TheEconomist

American policy. How America wasted its unipolar moment.