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Henry Kissinger: An Intimate Portrait of the Master of Realpolitik

Autor Jérémie Gallon Traducere de Roland Glasser
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 aug 2025
'Jérémie Gallon's reexamination of Kissinger's life and personality provides vital lessons for twenty-first century Europe' Michel Barnier, former French Prime MinisterJérémie Gallon paints an intriguing portrait of the 'master of Realpolitik', drawing lessons from Henry Kissinger's life and actions to explore the creation of a more coherent and resilient foreign policy, particularly in Europe. Chapters address themes, moments, and characters that shaped Kissinger's career, such as the Harvard years, the centrality of Realpolitik, Jewishness, even football, and his relationships with figures such as Nelson Rockefeller, Richard Nixon, Anwar Sadat, and Zhou Enlai - not to mention his mother Paula. This new English edition includes an additional chapter detailing the author's meeting with Kissinger in Connecticut ten days after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.Gallon is as interested in the statesman as he is in the man himself, delving into the more glamorous and intimate aspects of his life, yet making no secret of Kissinger's contradictions and the moral accusations levelled against him.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781805224600
ISBN-10: 1805224603
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 166 x 242 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Profile Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Jérémie Gallon is a foreign policy analyst and former EU diplomat who contributes regularly to international media, including The Financial Times, Politico, and L'Express. He is a non-resident senior fellow in the Atlantic Council and was an adjunct professor in international affairs at Sciences Po (Paris Institute of Political Studies). His other books include Diary of a Young Diplomat in Trump's America (Gallimard, 2018) and Georges Pompidou: A Timeless Figure (Gallimard, 2025). The original French edition of this book (Henry Kissinger, L'Européen, Gallimard 2021) won the 2022 Prix Eugène-Colas awarded by the Académie Française.

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Jérémie Gallon's reexamination of Kissinger's life and personality provides vital lessons for twenty-first century Europe
At a time when geopolitics has become scary again, Jérémie's take on Henry Kissinger is essential reading'
Jérémie Gallon's KIssinger is in essence a letter to Europe. Gallon wants Europe to rediscover foreign policy realism and power, 'devoid of self-illusion'. His portrait of Kissinger as the intellectual man of action reveals historic European roots, but Gallon recognises that this older image must to adapted to the Europe of today. At a moment when Europe's long holiday from history is coming to a sharp close, Gallon's book summons statesmen of the past to rally new leaders who combine strategy with the diplomatic arts.
Takes a fresh approach to one of the most controversial figures in modern diplomacy. Structured around unexpected themes - from Kissinger's sense of humor to his sense of style - the book paints a nuanced picture that looks beyond moral judgment or mythmaking
Refreshingly, the book resists the European habit of blaming the current state of world affairs on American alone. On the contrary, it is a plea for Europe to get a grip on foreign policy and to learn from the Kissingerian style - and indeed to relearn the history of European diplomacy that Kissinger so well understood.
Fascinating book. Gallon's Kissinger is one that you do not know
This short volume, translated from the French by Roland Glasser, is really two books. The longer is a gallop through Kissinger's remarkable career. The shorter is a meditation on his relationship with the continent of his birth and how his legacy might be used to rejuvenate Europe's strategic position.
Gallon supplies exclusive revelations from his meeting with Kissinger 10 days after Russia's invasion of Ukraine and has said himself that Kissinger's life and actions "have much to teach us as to how we can build the new European realpolitik we so desperately need".