LEADER 03767nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910459926803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-5977-X 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801459771 035 $a(CKB)2670000000080960 035 $a(OCoLC)726824257 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10457617 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000484011 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11338881 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000484011 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10574228 035 $a(PQKB)11369903 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3137996 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28756 035 $a(DE-B1597)478366 035 $a(OCoLC)979740398 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801459771 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3137996 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10457617 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681790 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000080960 100 $a20090605d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe eccentric realist$b[electronic resource] $eHenry Kissinger and the shaping of American foreign policy /$fMario Del Pero 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (201 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-50508-X 311 $a0-8014-4759-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Crisis of Containment --$t2. Kissinger and Kissingerism --$t3. Kissingerism in Action --$t4. The Domestic Critique of Kissinger --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aIn The Eccentric Realist, Mario Del Pero questions Henry Kissinger's reputation as the foreign policy realist par excellence. Del Pero shows that Kissinger has been far more ideological and inconsistent in his policy formulations than is commonly realized. Del Pero considers the rise and fall of Kissinger's foreign policy doctrine over the course of the 1970's-beginning with his role as National Security Advisor to Nixon and ending with the collapse of détente with the Soviet Union after Kissinger left the scene as Ford's outgoing Secretary of State. Del Pero shows that realism then (not unlike realism now) was as much a response to domestic politics as it was a cold, hard assessment of the facts of international relations. In the early 1970's, Americans were weary of ideological forays abroad; Kissinger provided them with a doctrine that translated that political weariness into foreign policy. Del Pero argues that Kissinger was keenly aware that realism could win elections and generate consensus. Moreover, over the course of the 1970's it became clear that realism, as practiced by Kissinger, was as rigid as the neoconservativism that came to replace it. In the end, the failure of the détente forged by the realists was not the defeat of cool reason at the hands of ideologically motivated and politically savvy neoconservatives. Rather, the force of American exceptionalism, the touchstone of the neocons, overcame Kissinger's political skills and ideological commitments. The fate of realism in the 1970's raises interesting questions regarding its prospects in the early years of the twenty-first century. 606 $aRealism$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States 606 $aConservatism$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aRealism$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aConservatism 676 $a973.924092 700 $aDel Pero$b Mario$0176495 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459926803321 996 $aThe eccentric realist$92481780 997 $aUNINA