Diplomacy

Main Author: Kissinger, Henry, 1923-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, c1994.
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Table of Contents:
  • The new world order
  • The hinge : Theodore Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson
  • From university to equilibrium : Richelieu, William of Orange, and Pitt
  • The concert of Europe : Great Britain, Austria, and Russia
  • Two revolutionaries : Napoleon III and Bismarck
  • Realpolitik turns on itself
  • A political doomsday machine : European diplomacy before the First World War
  • Into the vortex : the military doomsday machine
  • The new face of diplomacy : Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles
  • The dilemmas of the victors
  • Stresemann and the re-emergence of the vanquished
  • The end of illusion : Hitler and the destruction of Versailles
  • Stalin's bazaar
  • The Nazi-Soviet pact
  • America re-enters the arena : Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  • Three approaches to peace : Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill in World War II
  • The beginning of the Cold War
  • The success and the pain of containment
  • The dilemma of containment : the Korean War
  • Negotiating with the Communists : Adenauer, Churchill, and Eisenhower
  • Leapfrogging containment : the Suez crisis
  • Hungary : upheaval in the Empire
  • Khrushchev's ultimatum : the Berlin crisis 1958-63
  • Concepts of Western unity : Macmillan, de Gaulle, Eisenhower, and Kennedy
  • Vietnam : entry into the morass; Truman and Eisenhower
  • Vietnam : on the road to despair; Kennedy and Johnson
  • Vietnam : the extrication; Nixon
  • Foreign policy as geopolitics : Nixon's triangular diplomacy
  • Detente and its discontents
  • The end of the Cold War : Reagan and Gorbachev
  • The new world order reconsidered.