Diplomacy

In a brilliant, controversial, and profoundly incisive book, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger explains the art of diplomacy and reveals why Americans have historically repudiated both the style and substance of diplomacy as it is practiced throughout the world. 30 pages of photos. QBPC Alternate.

CONTENTS1 The New World Order2 The Hinge: Theodore Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson3 From Universality to Equilibrium: Richelieu, William of Orange, and Pitt4 The Concert of Europe: Great Britain, Austria, and Russia5 Two Revolutionaries: Napoleon III and Bismarck6 Realpolitik Turns on Itself7 A Political Doomsday Machine: European Diplomacy Before the First World War8 Into the Vortex: The Military Doomsday Machine9 The New Face of Diplomacy: Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles10 The Dilemmas of the Victors11 Stresemann and the Re-emergence of the Vanquished12 The End of Illusion: Hitler and the Destruction of Versailles13 Stalin's Bazaar14 The Nazi-Soviet Pact15 America Re-enters the Arena: Franklin Delano Roosevelt16 Three Approaches to Peace: Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill in World War II17 The Beginning of the Cold War18 The Success and the Pain of Containment19 The Dilemma of Containment: The Korean War20 Negotiating with the Communists: Adenauer, Churchill, and Eisenhower21 Leapfrogging Containment: The Suez Crisis22 Hungary: Upheaval in the Empire23 Khrushchev's Ultimatum: The Berlin Crisis 1958-6324 Concepts of Western Unity: Macmillan, de Gaulle, Eisenhower, and Kennedy25 Vietnam: Entry into the Morass; Truman and Eisenhower26 Vietnam: On the Road to Despair; Kennedy and Johnson27 Vietnam: The Extrication; Nixon28 Foreign Policy as Geopolitics: Nixon's Triangular Diplomacy29 Detente and Its Discontents30 The End of the Cold War: Reagan and Gorbachev31 The New World Order ReconsideredNOTESACKNOWLEDGMENTSINDEX