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.
1 The New World Order 17 (12)
2 The Hinge: Theodore Roosevelt or Woodrow 29 (27)
Wilson
3 From Universality to Equilibrium: 56 (22)
Richelieu, William of Orange, and Pitt
4 The Concert of Europe: Great Britain, 78 (25)
Austria, and Russia
5 Two Revolutionaries: Napoleon III and 103(34)
Bismarck
6 Realpolitik Turns on Itself 137(31)
7 A Political Doomsday Machine: European 168(33)
Diplomacy Before the First World War
8 Into the Vortex: The Military Doomsday 201(17)
Machine
9 The New Face of Diplomacy: Wilson and the 218(28)
Treaty of Versailles
10 The Dilemmas of the Victors 246(20)
11 Stresemann and the Re-emergence of the 266(22)
Vanquished
12 The End of Illusion: Hitler and the 288(44)
Destruction of Versailles
13 Stalin's Bazaar 332(18)
14 The Nazi-Soviet Pact ... 350(19)
15 America Re-enters the Arena: Franklin 369(25)
Delano Roosevelt
16 Three Approaches to Peace: Roosevelt, 394(29)
Stalin, and Churchill in World War II
17 The Beginning of the Cold War 423(23)
18 The Success and the Pain of Containment 446(27)
19 The Dilemma of Containment: The Korean War 473(20)
20 Negotiating with the Communists: 493(29)
Adenauer, Churchill, and Eisenhower
21 Leapfrogging Containment: The Suez Crisis 522(28)
22 Hungary: Upheaval in the Empire 550(18)
23 Khrushchev's Ultimatum: The Berlin Crisis 568(26)
1958-63
24 Concepts of Western Unity: Macmillan, de 594(26)
Gaulle, Eisenhower, and Kennedy
25 Vietnam: Entry into the Morass; Truman 620(23)
and Eisenhower
26 Vietnam: On the Road to Despair; Kennedy 643(31)
and Johnson
27 Vietnam: The Extrication; Nixon 674(29)
28 Foreign Policy as Geopolitics: Nixon's 703(30)
Triangular Diplomacy
29 Detente and Its Discontents 733(29)
30 The End of the Cold War: Reagan and 762(42)
Gorbachev
31 The New World Order Reconsidered 804(33)
NOTES 837(36)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 873(4)
INDEX 877