LEADER 03509nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910819388003321 005 20240410121724.0 010 $a0-19-992404-X 010 $a0-19-534674-2 010 $a1-280-84381-0 010 $a0-19-518431-9 035 $a(CKB)2560000000298733 035 $a(EBL)272928 035 $a(OCoLC)57138117 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000155942 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11155772 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000155942 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10114595 035 $a(PQKB)10214488 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000023877 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC272928 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL272928 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10103648 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL84381 035 $a(OCoLC)59196042 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB166051 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000298733 100 $a20040408d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe flawed architect $eHenry Kissinger and American foreign policy /$fJussi Hanhima?ki 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (581 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-517221-3 311 $a0-19-984999-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [534]-539) and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $aHenry 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 517 3 $aHenry Kissinger and American foreign policy 606 $aStatesmen$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aCabinet officers$zUnited States$vBiography 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1969-1974 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1969-1974 615 0$aStatesmen 615 0$aCabinet officers 676 $a973.924/092 676 $aB 700 $aHanhima?ki$b Jussi M.$f1965-$0848189 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819388003321 996 $aThe flawed architect$94078354 997 $aUNINA