The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign PolicyOxford University Press, 9 בספט׳ 2004 - 576 עמודים Henry Kissinger dominated American foreign relations like no other figure in recent history. He negotiated an end to American involvement in the Vietnam War, opened relations with Communist China, and orchestrated détente with the Soviet Union. Yet he is also the man behind the secret bombing of Cambodia and policies leading to the overthrow of Chile's President Salvador Allende. Which is more accurate, the picture of Kissinger the skilled diplomat or Kissinger the war criminal? In The Flawed Architect, the first major reassessment of Kissinger in over a decade, historian Jussi Hanhimaki paints a subtle, carefully composed portrait of America's most famous and infamous statesman. Drawing on extensive research from newly declassified files, the author follows Kissinger from his beginnings in the Nixon administration up to the current controversy fed by Christopher Hitchens over whether Kissinger is a war criminal. Hanhimaki guides the reader through White House power struggles and debates behind the Cambodia and Laos invasions, the search for a strategy in Vietnam, the breakthrough with China, and the unfolding of Soviet-American detente. Here, too, are many other international crises of the period--the Indo-Pakistani War, the Yom Kippur War, the Angolan civil war--all set against the backdrop of Watergate. Along the way, Hanhimaki sheds light on Kissinger's personal flaws--he was obsessed with secrecy and bureaucratic infighting in an administration that self-destructed in its abuse of power--as well as his great strengths as a diplomat. We see Kissinger negotiating, threatening and joking with virtually all of the key foreign leaders of the 1970s, from Mao to Brezhnev and Anwar Sadat to Golda Meir. This well researched account brings to life the complex nature of American foreign policymaking during the Kissinger years. It will be the standard work on Kissinger for years to come. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 88
עמוד xvi
... diplomatic relations until after Kissinger left office. Détente with the Soviet Union became such a dirty word, as a result of growing domestic criticism from the left and the right, that Gerald Ford banned the use of the word in his ...
... diplomatic relations until after Kissinger left office. Détente with the Soviet Union became such a dirty word, as a result of growing domestic criticism from the left and the right, that Gerald Ford banned the use of the word in his ...
עמוד xviii
... diplomacy as an instrument of fighting the Cold War, he was unable to break with some of the persistent paradigms of the Cold War. He operated, essentially, in the same bilateral framework as his predecessors had, taking it as a given ...
... diplomacy as an instrument of fighting the Cold War, he was unable to break with some of the persistent paradigms of the Cold War. He operated, essentially, in the same bilateral framework as his predecessors had, taking it as a given ...
עמוד xix
... diplomacy, Kissinger espoused a policy toward regional conflicts—and the so-called third world in general—that failed to introduce stability in the most volatile areas of the world. Moreover, the tension created by the regional ...
... diplomacy, Kissinger espoused a policy toward regional conflicts—and the so-called third world in general—that failed to introduce stability in the most volatile areas of the world. Moreover, the tension created by the regional ...
עמוד 7
... diplomatic efforts, a similar solution could certainly be arrived at by Western statesmen a century and a half later ... diplomats to shape (or reshape) international relations. If anything, A World Restored stresses the importance of ...
... diplomatic efforts, a similar solution could certainly be arrived at by Western statesmen a century and a half later ... diplomats to shape (or reshape) international relations. If anything, A World Restored stresses the importance of ...
עמוד 9
... diplomatic correspondent at the time, called Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy “the most important book of 1957 ... diplomacy the greatest freedom of action and which addresses itself to the question of whether the nuclear age presents ...
... diplomatic correspondent at the time, called Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy “the most important book of 1957 ... diplomacy the greatest freedom of action and which addresses itself to the question of whether the nuclear age presents ...
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4 Progress and Promise | 55 |
5 Negotiating in the Shadow of War | 68 |
6 Crises and Opportunities | 92 |
7 Breakthroughs | 116 |
Triangular Diplomacy and the IndoPakistani War | 154 |
The October War and Shuttle Diplomacy | 302 |
Watergate Kissinger and Foreign Policy | 332 |
16 Renewal? Ford Vladivostok and Kissinger | 359 |
Exit from Vietnam | 382 |
Angola and East Timor | 399 |
Kissinger and the Marathon of 1976 | 427 |
20 The Chairman On Trial | 457 |
The Flawed Architect | 485 |
9 The Week That Changed the World | 185 |
Triangulation Moscow and Vietnam | 201 |
11 Exiting Vietnam | 228 |
12 Highs and Lows | 260 |
13 Secretary of State | 291 |
Notes | 493 |
Selected Bibliography | 535 |
Index | 541 |
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