Diplomacy (Kissinger)

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Diplomacy is a 1994 book written by Henry Kissinger. It is a sweep of the history of international relations and the art of diplomacy, largely concentrating on the 20th century. Kissinger, as a great believer in the realist school of international relations, focuses strongly upon the concepts of raison d'état and Realpolitik throughout the ages of diplomatic relations.

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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 Dilemmas 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. Krushchev's Ultimatum: The Berlin Crisis 1958-63
24. Concepts of Western Unity: Macmillan, de Gaulle, Eisenhower, and Kennedy
25. Vietnam: Entry into the Morass; Truman and Eisenhower
26. Vietnam: On the Road to Despair; 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

A leather bound gold embossed edition of this book was published by the Easton Press signed by Kissinger.