Diplomacy

Kissinger, Henry, 1923-2023, author.

Book 1994

In this controversial and monumental book - arguably his most important - Henry Kissinger illuminates just what diplomacy is. Moving from a sweeping overview of his own interpretation of history to personal accounts of his negotiations with world leaders, Kissinger describes the ways in which the art of diplomacy and the balance of power have created the world we live in, and shows how Americans, protected by the size and isolation of their count...

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ISBN:

9780671659912
067165991X

Description:

912 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 837-872) and index

Contents:

The new world order
The hinge : Theodore Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson
From university to equilibrium : Richelieu, William of Orange, and Pitt
The concert of Europe : Great Britain, Austria, and Russia
Two revolutionaries : Napoleon III and Bismarck
Realpolitik turns on itself
A political doomsday machine : European diplomacy before the First World War
Into the vortex : the military doomsday machine
The new face of diplomacy : Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles
The dilemmas of the victors
Stresemann and the re-emergence of the vanquished
The end of illusion : Hitler and the destruction of Versailles
Stalin's bazaar
The Nazi-Soviet pact
America re-enters the arena : Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Three approaches to peace : Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill in World War II
The beginning of the Cold War
The success and the pain of containment
The dilemma of containment : the Korean War
Negotiating with the Communists : Adenauer, Churchill, and Eisenhower
Leapfrogging containment : the Suez crisis
Hungary : upheaval in the Empire
Khrushchev's ultimatum : the Berlin crisis 1958-63
Concepts of Western unity : Macmillan, de Gaulle, Eisenhower, and Kennedy
Vietnam : entry into the morass; Truman and Eisenhower
Vietnam : on the road to despair; Kennedy and Johnson
Vietnam : the extrication; Nixon
Foreign policy as geopolitics : Nixon's triangular diplomacy
Detente and its discontents
The end of the Cold War : Reagan and Gorbachev
The new world order reconsidered

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93044001

Control Number:

48794

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