He has written more than two dozen books on themes like his life, the Vietnam War, World Order, Nuclear Weapons, China, Artificial Intelligence and leadership. He has his high points and pitfalls, more so the latter, in each of them.Īt an individual level, he is surely one of the best writers on anything under the umbrella of International Relations, especially involving the United States of America as a dominant power from the 1970s till 1991, and the only hyperpower from 1991 till 2008. His career under wide-brimmed hats of military, teaching, foreign affairs, writing and geostrategic consultations spans more than seven decades. (Diplomacy for hegemonic powers is pure war-mongering).

Perhaps that stint helped him in gleaning his knowledge of diplomacy and realpolitik. He is insightful on history and resourceful in perspective.īefore becoming the State Secretary of the United States of America and National Security Advisor, he had been an academic at Harvard University, teaching Foreign Affairs. Amongst his brilliance is his ability to teach through his penning. But like any other person in the history of humans, he has hundreds of conspicuous aspects to him. Scoundrel, because of the kind of diplomatic faux passes and machinations he has been involved in the last half-a-century. If there is any one word that can be used to describe Henry Kissinger, in popular parlance, it is ‘scoundrel’. The book elaborates the Chinese nature of exceptionalism, and is completely in contrast with American Exceptionalism

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