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The flawed architect : Henry Kissinger and American foreign policy /
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 Camb...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Colección: | OUP E-Books.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.