Kissinger's Diplomacy

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This paper examines how Henry Kissinger used a very unique policy of diplomacy when he was Secretary of State during President Nixon's term of office. It explains that Kissinger did not like being a team-player and preferred to make most of the decisions alone. During his term, he focused on the relationship with Europe and the paper discusses how this policy was different to his predecessors.

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"In a recent article "History and Henry Kissinger" , Robert Beisner makes a very careful distinction between an American Secretary of State and his corps of diplomats and bureaucrats, and Kissinger, who renounced "diplomacy by consensus", in fact disliked the term "diplomat" and asserted the power of a Statesman in deciding the direction of American foreign policy. In this book, Kissinger's every move seems to have been constructed to overcome the democratic barriers of foreign policy. He did not want team-work. He often disregarded Nixon's memoranda. He wanted to be known for daring, for taking unusual chances, and for succeeding"

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