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Statesmanship as a flawed diplomat dissects it
Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
Henry Kissinger at the age of 99 remains alert, a keen observer of global affairs. For all the flaws attributed to his behavior in his years in power under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, he is by and large yet considered a foremost spokesperson on diplomacy. His books, written over the years, have been regarded, with good reason, as commentaries on the state of the world even as perspectives have changed all around since he left office.
Kissinger’s new work, Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy, is the newest expression of the ideas he has generally held in his approach to politics on a global scale. Kissinger’s understanding of history, the earliest instance of which came through in the late 1950s, has been a remarkable study of the men and events he believes have shaped the modern world, especially the one which emerged following the end of the Second World War.
Leadership is, in large measure, a whole lot more than his admiration of the six individuals covered in the work. The admiration rests on what he perceives to be the strategies these individuals applied in shaping, sometimes reshaping, their nations and their ties with the world beyond their frontiers
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Kissinger believes US at the edge of war with Russia and China
NEW YORK, August 13. /TASS/. Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger believes that Washington is currently on the brink of war with Moscow and Beijing, he said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.
"We are at the edge of war with Russia and China on issues which we partly created, without any concept of how this is going to end or what it’s supposed to lead to," he said.
"You can’t just now say we’re going to split them off and turn them against each other. All you can do is not to accelerate the tensions and to create options, and for that you have to have some purpose," Kissinger added.
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Henry Kissinger Is Worried About ‘Disequilibrium’
The 99-year-old former secretary of state has just published a book on leadership and sees a dangerous lack of strategic purpose in U.S. foreign policy
At 99 years old, Henry Kissinger has just published his 19th book, “Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy.” It is an analysis of the vision and historical achievements of an idiosyncratic pantheon of post-World War II leaders: Konrad Adenauer, Charles DeGaulle, Richard Nixon, Anwar Sadat, Lee Kuan-Yew and Margaret Thatcher.
In the 1950s, “before I was involved in politics,” Mr. Kissinger tells me in his midtown Manhattan office on a steamy day in July, “my plan was to write a book about the making of peace and the ending of peace in the 19th century, starting with the Congress of Vienna, and that turned into a book,
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