03385nam 2200637 a 450 991079225260332120231130212002.00-19-992404-X0-19-534674-21-280-84381-00-19-518431-9(CKB)2560000000298733(EBL)272928(OCoLC)57138117(SSID)ssj0000155942(PQKBManifestationID)11155772(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000155942(PQKBWorkID)10114595(PQKB)10214488(StDuBDS)EDZ0000023877(MiAaPQ)EBC272928(Au-PeEL)EBL272928(CaPaEBR)ebr10103648(CaONFJC)MIL84381(EXLCZ)99256000000029873320040408d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe flawed architect[electronic resource] Henry Kissinger and American foreign policy /Jussi HanhimäkiNew York Oxford University Press20041 online resource (581 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-517221-3 0-19-984999-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [534]-539) and index.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.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 paintsStatesmenUnited StatesBiographyCabinet officersUnited StatesBiographyUnited StatesForeign relations1969-1974United StatesPolitics and government1969-1974StatesmenCabinet officers973.924/092BHanhimäki Jussi M.1965-848189MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792252603321The flawed architect3783717UNINA