Redigerer George F. Kennan (avsnitt)

== Litteratur ==
* Bell, Philip, ''Världen efter 1945'' (2003), ISBN 91-518-4058-8. 
* Bethell, Nicholas, ''Betrayed'', Times Books, New York (1984), ISBN 08-129-1188-1.
* Forrestal, James, ''The Forrestal Diaries'', Walter Millis, ed., New York (1951), ISBN 06-703-2418-3.
* Gaddis, John Lewis, ''Russia, the Soviet Union, and the United States: An Interpretive History'', New York (1990), ISBN 978-0075546733.
* Gaddis, John Lewis, ''Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy (1982), ISBN 978-0195030976.
* Hixson, Walter L., ''George F. Kennan: Cold War Iconoclast (1989), ISBN 978-0231068956.
* Kissinger, Henry, ''Diplomacy''. 1994. ISBN 978-0-671-51099-2
* LaFeber, Walter, ''America, Russia, and the Cold War'', New York (2002), ISBN 978-0070360648.
* Miscamble, Wilson D., ''George Kennan: A Life in the Foreign service'', Foreign Service Journal vol. 81, nr. 2, februar 2004. [http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/archives_roll/2004_04-06/miscamble_kennan/miscamble_kennan.html] [https://web.archive.org/web/20060823131446/http://www.afsa.org/fsj/feb04/miscamble.pdf]
* Miscamble, Wilson D., ''George F. Kennan and the Making of American Foreign Policy, 1947–1950.'', Princeton, N.J. (1992), ISBN 978-0691024837.
* NSC 10/2, ''National Security Council Directive on Office of Special Projects'', 18. juni 1948, Etzold and Gaddis, eds., ''Containment'', side 125–128
* Nye, Joseph S., ''Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory and History'', Pearson Longman. 2009. ISBN 978-0-205-66439-9
* Stephanson, Anders, ''Kennan and the Art of Foreign Policy'', Harvard University Press (1989) ISBN 978-0674502659.
* Talbott, Strobe, ''The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy'', Random House, New York (2002), ISBN 978-0375507144