John Lewis Gaddis Quotes

United States, Military Historian
April 2, 1941

John Lewis Gaddis (born 1941) is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. He is best known for his work on the Cold War and grand strategy, and has been hailed as the "Dean of Cold War Historians" by The New York Times. Gaddis is also the official biographer of the seminal 20th-century American statesman George F. Kennan. George F. Kennan: An American Life (2011), his biography of Kennan, won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.

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I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift in the balance of power.

John Lewis Gaddis
- Power
- Balance
The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy.

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- Long
- American
- History

If there is one great power, and the great power has taken upon itself the right to preempt and is choosing for itself when and in what circumstances it's going to do that, obviously it leads people in the rest of the world to wonder how far this doctrine extends.

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- People
- World
- Great
The United States came out of the 1990s, if anything, in an even greater position of hegemony and preeminence than it was at the beginning of the 1990s.

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- Beginning
Second terms in the White House open the way for second thoughts.

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- House
- Thoughts
George W. Bush has much to evaluate: he has presided over the most sweeping redesign of U.S. grand strategy since the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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I don't think there is necessarily a contradiction between being a hegemonic power on the one hand and functioning multilaterally on the other.

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- Power
- Hand