History
Diplomacy
Henry Kissinger
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Kissinger surveys three centuries of statecraft to argue that stable order requires both a balance of power and a shared idea of legitimacy — and that American idealism has often ignored the first.
A history and analysis of the Western state system and the practice of diplomacy from Richelieu to the end of the Cold War, arguing for balance-of-power realism tempered by a sense of legitimacy.
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