The flawed architect Henry Kissinger and American foreign policy /

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Main Author: Hanhimäki, Jussi M., 1965-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.