This Week's Suggested Book
from the Ashbrook Center
(Monday, September 08, 1997)
 | | Diplomacy
by Henry Kissinger |
Touchstone Books
912 pages, January 1994
Paperback, 17.50
ISBN: 0671510991
A percentage of the proceeds from your purchase of this book from Amazon.com will benefit the
Ashbrook Center.
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.
Table of Contents:
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 Bilemmas 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. Kruschev's Ultimatum: The Berlin Crisis 1958-63
24. Concepts of Western Unity: Macmillan, de Gaulle, Eisenhower, and Kennedy
25. Vietnam: Entry in to the Morass; Truman and Eisenhower
26. Vietnam: On the Road to Depair; 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
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