Frank Costigliola

Mar 4, 2024 | academic.oup.com | Frank Costigliola

Frank Costigliola has written a major biography of the scholar and diplomat, George F. Kennan. Kennan had a distinguished career in the American foreign service, and this book offers an impressive and detailed account of his life and times in the early years of the Cold War. Kennan has always been regarded as a member of the realist school of International Relations. His career covered time spent as an American diplomat serving in Germany, Russia and the US State Department.

Feb 10, 2023 | newsbreak.com | Frank Costigliola

Romney Breaks With Top Republicans, Insists Chinese Balloon Crisis Was ‘Skillfully’ HandledIn a break from major Republican players, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) told CNN Thursday the U.S. made the right call in waiting to shoot down the Chinese surveillance balloon until it was over the Atlantic Ocean Saturday. “Was everything done 100 percent correctly? I can’t imagine that would be the case of almost anything we do.

Feb 3, 2023 | thealphengroup.com | Frank Costigliola |Princeton Press

Princeton University PressKennan: A Life Between Worlds By Frank Costigliola, Princeton University Press (2023)[This article was first published by Policy Magazine]As the author of America’s postwar policy of containment toward the Soviet Union that defined the core dynamic of the Cold War, it is hard to think of a foreign service officer with more enduring influence on US foreign policy than George Kennan. Much has been written by and of Kennan.