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Henry Kissinger Diplomacy

Henry Kissinger's Diplomacy provides insights into the art of diplomacy based on Kissinger's experiences as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State under Nixon. Drawing from over 300 years of history, Kissinger demonstrates how modern diplomacy emerged through balancing power between nations and negotiations during war and peace. He profiles world leaders he negotiated with to give readers rare insights into summit diplomacy. Kissinger argues Americans have sometimes pursued an idealistic foreign policy that ignores realities, and illustrates this through his own breakthrough diplomatic initiatives with Nixon.

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Henry Kissinger Diplomacy

Henry Kissinger's Diplomacy provides insights into the art of diplomacy based on Kissinger's experiences as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State under Nixon. Drawing from over 300 years of history, Kissinger demonstrates how modern diplomacy emerged through balancing power between nations and negotiations during war and peace. He profiles world leaders he negotiated with to give readers rare insights into summit diplomacy. Kissinger argues Americans have sometimes pursued an idealistic foreign policy that ignores realities, and illustrates this through his own breakthrough diplomatic initiatives with Nixon.

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In this controversial and monumental

bOOk arguably his most important


Henry Kissinger illuminates just what
diplomacy is. MovinjJ ffom a sweeping
overview of his own interpretation Of
history to personal accounts of his
nejJOtilltiOris
with world leaders, Kissinger describes
the WHO
in which the art of diplomacy and the
bal6Hce of power have created the
world we live in, and shows how
Americans, protected by the size and
isolation of their country, as well as by
their own idealism and mistrust of
the Old World, have
sought to conduct a unique kind of
foreign policy based on the way they
wanted the world to be, as opposed to
the way it really is.
Spanning more than three centuries of
history, from Cardinal Richelieu, the
father of the modern state system, to
the New World Order, in which we live,
Kissinger demonstrates how modelTl
diplomacy emerged from the trials and
experi- ences of the balance of power of
warfare and peacemaking, and why
America, sOmetilTlOS tO its peril, refused
to learn its lessons.
His intimate portraits ot world leaders,
includ- ing de Gaulle, Nixon, Chou Enlai, Mao Tse-tUn
, Reagan, and
Gorbachev, based on personal eXQOrience and knowledge, provide the
reader with
a rare window on
diplomacy at the summit, togeth- er
with a wealth Of dettiled 6fld oFiginal
observations
on
the
secret
negotiations, great events, and the art
of statesmanship that have shaped our

of diplomacy, Kissinger shows how


various sx:i- eties produce special ways
of conducting foreign policy, and how
Americans, from the very begin- ning,
sought a distinctive foreign policy based
on idealism. He illustrates his points
with his own insights and with examples
from his own experi- ence, as well as
with
candid
accounts
of
his
breakthrough diplomatic initiatives as
Nixons for- eign policy partner.
Informed
by
deep
historical
knowledge, wit, a gift for irony, and a
unique understanding of the forces that
bind and sunder nations, Kissingers
Diplomacy is must reading for anyone
who cares about Americas position in
the world.

HENRY ALFRED KISSINGER was sworn in


on September 22, 1973, as the fifty-

sixth Secretary of State, a position he


held until January 20, 1977. He also
served as Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs from January
20, 1969, until November 3, 1975.
Among the awards Dr. Kissinger has
received have been the Nobel Peace
Prize in 1973; the Presidential Medal of
Freedom (the nations high- est civilian
award) in 1977; and the Medal of
Liberty in 1986.
Dr. Kissinger was born in Fiirth,
Germany, came to the United States in
1938 and was naturalized a United
States citizen in 1943. He served in the
Army trom 1943 to 1946. He
graduated summi cum laude from
Harvard College in 1950. From 1954
until 1969 he was a member of the
lives in the decades betoro, dUfilQ 6Hd faculty of Harvard University. He was
since Henry Kissinger was himself at Director of the Harvard International
the center of things.
Seminar from 1952 to 1969.
Analyzing the differences in the
Dr. Kissinger is married to the former
national styles
Nancy Maginnes and is the father of two
children by a previous marriage.

Jacket design Bernadette Evangelist


copyright O 1994 by Robert Anthony,
Inc.

- Frcifit jacket photo courtesy of Culver


Pictures Back: jacket photo courtesy of
Chinese Press Photo
Printed in the U.SA Copyright 1994 Simon &
Schuster

04943500

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