DiplomacyA brilliant, sweeping history of diplomacy that includes personal stories from the noted former Secretary of State, including his stunning reopening of relations with China. The seminal work on foreign policy and the art of diplomacy. Moving from a sweeping overview of history to blow-by-blow accounts of his negotiations with world leaders, Henry Kissinger describes how the art of diplomacy has created the world in which we live, and how America’s approach to foreign affairs has always differed vastly from that of other nations. Brilliant, controversial, and profoundly incisive, Diplomacy stands as the culmination of a lifetime of diplomatic service and scholarship. It is vital reading for anyone concerned with the forces that have shaped our world today and will impact upon it tomorrow. |
Contents
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Great Britain Austria and Russia | 78 |
Napoleon HI and Bismarck | 103 |
Realpolitik Turns on Itself | 137 |
European Diplomacy Before the First World War | 168 |
The Military Doomsday Machine | 201 |
The Success and the Pain of Containment | 446 |
The Korean War | 473 |
Adenauer Churchill and Eisenhower | 493 |
The Suez Crisis | 522 |
Upheaval in the Empire | 550 |
The Berlin Crisis 195863 | 568 |
Macmillan de Gaulle Eisenhower | 594 |
Entry into the Morass Truman and Eisenhower | 620 |
Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles | 218 |
The Dilemmas of the Victors | 246 |
Stresemann and the Reemergence of the Vanquished | 266 |
Hitler and the Destruction of Versailles | 288 |
Stalins Bazaar | 332 |
The NaziSoviet Pact | 350 |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 369 |
Roosevelt Stalin and Churchill in World War II | 394 |
The Beginning of the Cold War | 423 |
On the Road to Despair Kennedy and Johnson | 643 |
The Extrication Nixon | 674 |
Nixons Triangular | 703 |
Detente and Its Discontents | 733 |
Reagan and Gorbachev | 762 |
The New World Order Reconsidered | 804 |
NOTES | 837 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 873 |
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