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Diplomacy (Touchstone Book) Paperback – April 4, 1995

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A brilliant, sweeping history of diplomacy that includes personal stories from the noted former Secretary of State, including his stunning reopening of relations with China.

The seminal work on foreign policy and the art of diplomacy.

Moving from a sweeping overview of history to blow-by-blow accounts of his negotiations with world leaders, Henry Kissinger describes how the art of diplomacy has created the world in which we live, and how America’s approach to foreign affairs has always differed vastly from that of other nations.

Brilliant, controversial, and profoundly incisive, Diplomacy stands as the culmination of a lifetime of diplomatic service and scholarship. It is vital reading for anyone concerned with the forces that have shaped our world today and will impact upon it tomorrow.

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Former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Kissinger discusses the art of diplomacy and the American approach to foreign affairs.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Michiko Kakutani The New York Times An elegantly written study of Western diplomacy....Shrewd, often vexing, and consistently absorbing.

Simon Schama The New Yorker Kissinger's absorbing book tackles head-on some of the toughest questions of our time....Its pages sparkle with insight.

George P. Shultz This is a great book....Brilliant in its analysis and masterly in its sweep.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. This rich and absorbing work is both a brilliant study of the international crises that have shaped the modern world and a provocative meditation on the American style in foreign affairs.

Walter Laqueur Chairman, International Research Council, Center for Strategic and International Studies The most important work on diplomacy for thirty years.

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Series: Touchstone Book
Paperback: 912 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition (April 4, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780671510992
ISBN-13: 978-0671510992
ASIN: 0671510991
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1.6 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Customer Reviews: 183 customer reviews

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It is really annoying to buy a book and then find out you've ...

October 14, 2014

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The book itself is a 5 star. The Kindle version, because it leaves out 12 pages of maps, I rate at 2 stars. It is really annoying to buy a book and then find out you've been short changed. The seller should be required to inform the buyer that the Kindle version has been abridged. However, Kissinger's exposition of the history of diplomacy is brilliant, and as the length of the book suggests, exhaustive. Though he seems to be self-serving at points, it detracts little from the whole. I found it particularly interesting how a nation's history and culture serve as guides for their foreign policy. One might even conclude that without a national identity there can be no coherent foreign policy. For example, the new German nation which Bismarck had cobbled together could not formulate a policy to deal with the events leading to WWI. Also, Kissinger's description of Woodrow Wilson's insistence on replacing self-interest as a basis for foreign alliances with collective security and a moral judgement, helps a lot in understanding today's mess.

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Christian D. Orr

One of the most influential foreign policy books

May 4, 2019

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I read this in the summer of 1994, right on the heels of passing of Dr. Kissinger’s boss (former President Richard M. Nixon, that is; I had the honour & pleasure of being a volunteer staff assistant at Mr. Nixon’s funeral), in-between my freshman and sophomore year at the USC School of International Relations. It was one of the all-time most influential and memorable books on foreign policy and history I’ve ever read. I especially appreciated the author’s writings on the Korean and Vietnam Wars, challenging the existing left-wing academia paradigms on both wars.

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The History of Peace

November 12, 2019

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The study of history often seems to be preoccupied with war. Henry Kissinger corrects the imbalance with his authoritative account of the people who ended wars and preserved the peace, from the time of Napoleon to end of the Cold War. The book is dedicated “to the men and women of the Foreign Service.”

He starts with the Peace of Westphalia and the Congress of Vienna, which pacified Europe for more than one hundred years. In the twentieth century, he is obliged to recount more wars, which he attributes to failures of the Wilsonian approach, and then the mixed success of Kennan’s containment theory.

Kissinger obviously prefers realpolitik, and he mocks the “theological” and “psychological” schools of international relations. He nonetheless admires the United States for its idealistic approach, conceding that no other approach is compatible with America’s core values.

The material on New World Order feels dated, but still a good analysis considering the book came out in 1994. As a history book, Diplomacy amply demonstrates the importance of studying how peace has been maintained in the past, that we may have more of it in future.

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Outstanding Review of History and Diplomacy

October 1, 2012

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Kissinger's review of international diplomacy is a deep and abiding analysis of what has happened in the western world since the 17th century and the beginnings of the European balance of power system. Kissinger works toward the modern world of international interactions (his book was published in 1994) and America's role in forming and then surviving (so far) in this system.

He explains the complex workings of the international order in fundamental terms. For example, discussing the problems at Versailles, "European style diplomacy presumes that national interests have a tendency to clash, and views diplomacy as the means for reconciling them. Wilson, on the other hand, considered international discord the result of 'clouded thinking,' not as an expression of a genuine clash of interests." Knowing this fundamental difference in world views it is much easier to understand the difficulties at Versailles. This book is filled with this critical kind of information. It is also filled with the Kissinger style of thinking. First the overview, then an analysis of the detailed problem keeping the overview always in mind.

I suggest reading On China after reading Diplomacy. I read them the opposite way and I think I would have enjoyed On China even more if I had read this book first.

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Richard Boyd II

Kissinger, the master statesman

February 19, 2016

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Whether you love or hate, agree or disagree with Henry Kissinger and his controversial career as a Cold War era statesman, he is undoubtably a master storyteller and great instructor on diplomacy. His book illuminates where we've been as a nation and gives the occasional glimpse on where we're going. I recommend this book to anyone who wants an insightful view on America's foreign policy written from a mainly neutral prospective.

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