The flawed architect : Henry Kissinger and American foreign policy
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 detente with the Soviet Union. Yet he is also the man behind the secret bombingof 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
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Introduction : a prize-winning performance?
The aspiring statesman
Kissinger, Nixon, and the challenges of '69
Bombs and back channels
Progress and promise
Negotiating in the shadow of war
Crises and opportunities
Breakthroughs
The first test : Triangulation diplomacy and the Indo-Pakistani war
"The week that changed the world"
High stakes : triangulation, Moscow, and Vietnam
Exiting Vietnam
Highs and lows
Secretary of State
Unilateral advantage : the October war and shuttle diplomacy
Nixon's farewell : Watergate, Kissinger and foreign policy
Renewal? Ford, Vladivostok, and Kissinger
Not our loss : exit from Vietnam
The worst hour : Angola and East Timor
"Worse than in the days of McCarthy" : Kissinger and the marathon of 1976
The chairman 'on trial'
Conclusion : the flawed architect
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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