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The seminal work on foreign policy and the art of diplomacy.
Moving from a sweeping overview of history to blow-by-blow accounts of his negotiations with world leaders, Henry Kissinger describes how the art of diplomacy has created the world in which we live, and how Americas approach to foreign affairs has always differed vastly from that of other nations. Brilliant, controversial, and profoundly incisive, Diplomacy stands as the culmination of a lifetime of diplomatic service and scholarship. It is vital reading for anyone concerned with the forces that have shaped our world today and will impact upon it tomorrow. From back cover.
1.The new world order ---
2. The hinge : Theodore Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson ---
3. From universality to equilibrium : Richelieu, William of Orange, and Pitt ---
4. The concert of Europe : Great Britain, Austria, and Russia ---
5. Two revolutionaries : Napoleon III and Bismarck ---
6. Realpolitik turns on itself ---
7. A political doomsday machine : European diplomacy before the First World War ---
8. Into the vortex : the military doomsday machine ---
9. The new face of diplomacy : Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles ---
10. The dilemmas of the victors ---
11. Stresemann and the re-emergence of the vanquished ---
12. The end of illusion : Hitler and the destruction of Versailles ---
13. Stalin's bazaar ---
14. The Nazi-Soviet pact ---
15. America re-enters the arena : Franklin Delano Roosevelt ---
16. Three approaches to peace : Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill in World War II ---
17. The beginning of the Cold War ---
18. The success and the pain of containment ---
19. The dilemma of containment : the Korean War ---
20. Negotiating with the Communists : Adenauer, Churchill, and Eisenhower ---
21. Leapfrogging containment : the Suez crisis ---
22. Hungary : upheaval in the Empire ---
23. Khrushchev's ultimatum : the Berlin crisis 1958-63 ---
24. Concepts of Western unity : Macmillan, de Gaulle, Eisenhower, and Kennedy ---
25. Vietnam : entry into the morass; Truman and Eisenhower ---
26. Vietnam : on the road to despair; Kennedy and Johnson ---
27. Vietnam : the extrication; Nixon ---
28. Foreign policy as geopolitics : Nixon's triangular diplomacy ---
29. Detente and its discontents ---
30. The end of the Cold War : Reagan and Gorbachev ---
31. The new world order reconsidered..
