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Saturs
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Saturs: Contents: The New World order -- The Hinge - Theodore Roosewelt or Woodrow Wilson -- From universality to equilibrium: Richelieu, William of Orange, and Pitt -- The concept of Europe: Great Britain, Austria, and Russia -- Two revolutionaries: Napoleon III and Bismarck -- Realpolitik turns on itself -- A political doomsday machine: European diplomacy before the First World War -- Into the vortex: the military doomsday machine -- The new face of diplomacy: Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles -- The dilemmas of the victors -- Stresemann and the re-emergence of the vanquished -- The end of illusion: Hitler and the destruction of Versailles -- Stalin’s bazaar -- The Nazi-Soviet Pact -- America re-enters the arena: Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Three approaches to peace: Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill in World War II -- The beginning of the Cold War -- The success and pain of containment -- The dilemma of containment: the Korean war -- Negotiating with the communists: Adenauer, Churchill, and Eisenhower -- Leapfrogging containment: the Suez crisis -- Hungary: upheaval in the empire -- Khrushchev’s ultimatum: the Berlin crisis 1958-63 -- Concepts of Western unity: Macmillan, de Gaulle, Eisenhower, and Kennedy -- Vietnam: entry into the morass; Truman and Eisenhower -- Vietnam: on the road to despair; Kennedy and Johnston -- Vietnam: the extrication; Nixon -- Foreign policy as geopolitics: Nixon’s triangular diplomacy -- Detente and its discontents -- The end of the Cold War: Reagan and Gorbachev -- The New World order reconsidered.
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Kissinger, Henry, 1923-2023.
