An Analysis of Henry Kissinger's World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History

ISBN-13: 9781912128839 / Miękka / 2017 / 104 str.

Bryan Gibson

Opis

Henry Kissinger's 2014 book World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History not only offers a summary of thinking developed throughout a long and highly influential career-it is also an intervention in international relations theory by one of the most famous statesmen of the twentieth century.

Spis treści

Ways in to the Text  Who was Henry Kissinger?  What does World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History Say?  Why does World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History Matter?  Section 1: Influences  Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context  Module 2: Academic Context  Module 3: The Problem  Module 4: The Author's Contribution  Section 2: Ideas  Module 5: Main Ideas  Module 6: Secondary Ideas  Module 7: Achievement  Module 8: Place in the Author's Work  Section 3: Impact  Module 9: The First Responses  Module 10: The Evolving Debate  Module 11: Impact and Influence Today  Module 12: Where Next?  Glossary of Terms  People Mentioned in the Text  Works Cited

O autorze

Dr Bryan Gibson holds a PhD in International History from the London School of Economics (LSE) and was a post-doctoral research fellow at the LSE’s Centre for Diplomacy and Strategy and an instructor on Middle Eastern politics at both the LSE’s Department of International History and the University of East Anglia’s Department of Political, Social and International Studies (PSI). He is currently on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University and is the author of Sold Out? US Foreign Policy, Iraq, the Kurds and the Cold War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).