Kissinger and the American Century
Can’t help myself, great articles about Kissinger. Here's one focusing on lessons for President Bush by the author of a new book on Kissinger and the other (a review of the new Kissinger book).
I just finished reading a great book by Robert Dallek on Nixon and Kissinger and find both so compelling. Both are such complex personalities, odd mixtures of insecurity and brilliance. Both were arrogant in their own ways, though Nixon’s demons were more personally destructive, Kissinger is a no less haunted man. The perennial foreign policy question is between Wilsonian messianism and Kissingerian Realpolitik. They’re two almost diametrically opposed viewpoints that are roughly summed up as neoconservative and realist, though some elites may want to be more associated with neoliberalism since it’s a little less military-centric.
I just finished reading a great book by Robert Dallek on Nixon and Kissinger and find both so compelling. Both are such complex personalities, odd mixtures of insecurity and brilliance. Both were arrogant in their own ways, though Nixon’s demons were more personally destructive, Kissinger is a no less haunted man. The perennial foreign policy question is between Wilsonian messianism and Kissingerian Realpolitik. They’re two almost diametrically opposed viewpoints that are roughly summed up as neoconservative and realist, though some elites may want to be more associated with neoliberalism since it’s a little less military-centric.
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