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Where are the Henry Kissingers when we need them?

16 May 2020

9:00 AM

16 May 2020

9:00 AM

The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and His World Barry Gewen

Norton, pp.448, 22.99

It was not until I went to Harvard in 1988 to take a year out from the Foreign Office that I came to realise how riven by ideology the world of US foreign policy had become. For 20 years I had been moulded by the resolute pragmatism of British diplomacy.

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