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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819388003321

Autore

Hanhimàˆki Jussi M. <1965->

Titolo

The flawed architect : Henry Kissinger and American foreign policy / / Jussi Hanhimàˆki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004

ISBN

0-19-992404-X

0-19-534674-2

1-280-84381-0

0-19-518431-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (581 p.)

Disciplina

973.924/092

B

Soggetti

Statesmen - United States

Cabinet officers - United States

United States Foreign relations 1969-1974

United States Politics and government 1969-1974

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [534]-539) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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