The flawed architect [[electronic resource] ] : Henry Kissinger and American foreign policy / / Jussi Hanhimäki

• Autore: Hanhimäki Jussi M. <1965->
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (581 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.924/092; B
• Soggetto topico: Statesmen - United States; Cabinet officers - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Foreign relations 1969-1974; United States Politics and government 1969-1974
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The flawed architect
• ISBN: 0-19-534674-2; 1-280-84381-0; 0-19-518431-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910464867503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II