...: An Intellectual Biography Christoph Frei Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001 Does America Need a Foreign Policy? Henry Kissinger New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001 Call it what you will— balance-of-power, masters of realism, from Machiavelli...

...] Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold war after 1969, they badly misjudged the War, praises me for my reporting and attacks public’s appetite for the conflict. Kissinger me for my opinions. Regarding the latter thus did not live up to the realism of his lit­ there is much I could argue...

... policy. “been translated into over a dozen languages Despite a number of brilliant and influen­ and reprinted constantly”) suggests he has tial exponents that include Hans Morgen- fallen victim to the same kinds of resent­ thau, Henry Kissinger, Samuel Huntington, ments toward the supposed hegemony...

... in the Cold well as cultural spheres, perceiving it to be War and before.7 deleterious to their interests. A recent study sponsored by the Council of Foreign Rela­ Structure and Process in the Global Order tions and co-chaired by Henry Kissinger Joseph Nye, in his book Understanding Inter­...

... history and that this has simply vanished idly judged in the context of European and from Kissinger’s account. At worst, such North American imperialism, decoloniza­ attitudes can approach a kind of racism, as tion, and neo-colonialism. Pre-1917 impe­ in the conservative political commentator...

... 95 relations, a link whose true strength was invasion and the subsequent scandals over misjudged alike by Leonid Brezhnev and torture, America’s moral authority as a de­ Henry Kissinger. Sharansky tartly faults the fender of universal rights has grievously former secretary of state for prizing...

... • SUMMER 2002 700,000 people of East Timor, though eth­ issue.” Kissinger’s only worries were that he nically similar, were distinguished from the and Ford get out of the country before any West Timorese by their strong Catholicism invasion. “If you have made plans, we will and their use...

... to have such an important role in history. I would like to tell you a story. After our April 25 [1974 revolution], [Secretary of State Henry] Kissinger told me that I risked to be the Portuguese Kerensky and that I should go to the United States because if I remained here I would probably be killed. I...

... power relations, concerns over the credibility of America’s rather than on ideological crusades to lib­ worldwide alliance commitments. But this eralize or reform the internal politics of decision was also very much informed by other states. As Henry Kissinger put it in the Wilsonian belief...

..., the event visions of peace through conquest and en­ was so shocking as to convince American lightened imperial administration but on leaders that we had entered a new age, and the ground of “ultimate national security.” indeed the broad outlines of the new Ameri­ Such is where Henry Kissinger has...

... to the funda­ than about the person actually being memo­ mentally amoral Henry Kissinger or the rialized. That said, I know for a fact that dogmatic “Straussians” populating the cur­ James cared a great deal about some of these rent Bush administration. There was, too, a allegedly “chilly abstractions...

... ayatollahs by sheltering Hizbollah’s anti-Israeli guerrillas. However, on the piv­ otal and most difficult matter—relations with Israel—the old lion proved a timid tease. For two decades, Washington’s mighty wooed him, beginning with Henry Kissinger and ending with Madeleine Albright, but Assad could...

... of the products. Ethan Allen was one of my early customers. In 1973, we entered a joint venture to develop and procure handcrafted products from around the globe. It was the very moment of the start of China’s opening to the world after the long years of the Cultural Revolution. Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger...

... them. The second principle calls for the end of any zero-sum approaches. They are to be replaced with win-win situations, requiring empathy for the others, or as Henry Kissinger put it, “watching the world through the eyes of others.” This should apply to the whole spectrum of political affairs...

... that the question of retary of State Henry Kissinger’s decision to the justness of a cause not be considered a back the Indonesian invasion of East Timor justification for ignoring the way in which in 1975 (and the continuing, and, indeed, a war is fought—jus ad helium and jus in the deepening links between...

... eyes as the went nowhere. But then former secretary of world went to the brink during the Cuban state Henry Kissinger endorsed it in a Time missile crisis.”4 In addition, self-interest was essay. In 1983, the Scowcroft Commission, at work. Gore knew that if he was going to which was set up...

... to threat­ Iraq must be rated very low. A functioning en resignation, as Henry Kissinger routinely democracy depends on domestic security, an did in order to get his way when he was in economy that provides a decent standard of government, Powell may be modeling him­ living for its citizens, some...

.... West Can Be One,” New York Times M agazine, April We are, then, at the end of an era— but 26, 2003, p. 13. not necessarily at the beginning of an en­ 5. Henry Kissinger, for example, remarked that tirely new one. We have advanced our inter­ the fracas over...

... listic-missile system made it politically easy for.. .existential deterrence.”2 for the Nixon administration to negotiate and sign the treaty. Secretary of State Henry The ABM Debate Kissinger had been an advocate of extended...

...” as Henry Kissinger and Brent hand information about the human rights Scowcroft, did not have a place at the table situation within North Korea. in the Clinton administration. In focusing In the mid-1990s, when North Korea’s on security issues (with only a passing nod chronic food...