Henry Kissinger 
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10/23/2022
After 50 Years, the Truth About the Vietnam Peace Agreement Remains Elusive
by Arnold Isaacs
In October 1972, Henry Kissinger declared "peace is at hand" in Vietnam. Why, then, did the United States continue bombing North Vietnam? Official deception still colors American foreign policy and military strategy today.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
4/4/2022
In Ukraine, the US Likely to Follow Kissinger's Example and Disappoint Idealists
by Jeffrey Fields
"From tacit support of the murderous dictator Saddam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq War to Washington’s close relationship with brutal human rights abuser Saudi Arabia, the U.S. frequently chooses to put its own interest ahead of its professed values."
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2/20/2022
Martin Indyk Writes the Palestinians Out of the History of Kissinger's Middle East Diplomacy
by James R. Stocker
Martin Indyk’s new work offers a vivid portrait of the former Secretary of State’s Arab-Israeli diplomacy, but he completely misses one of the most important parts of this policy – the Palestinians.
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SOURCE: Defector
1/11/2022
How the Cold War Killed Cannabis as We Knew It
When Henry Kissinger sought to assert American control of Caribbean bauxite ore reserves, he set off a political dirty war that poisoned the Jamaican interior and destroyed prominent strains of cannabis in the name of marijuana interdiction.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
11/29/2021
Isaac Chotiner Interviews Martin Indyk about Henry Kissinger
Does Martin Indyk's new book on Henry Kissinger, who is a personal friend, have enough critical distance between subject and author, asks interviewer Isaac Chotiner.
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SOURCE: Foreign Policy
10/15/2021
The Critique of "Grand Strategy" at Yale is Decades Overdue
by Jim Sleeper
In a changing world, Yale's decision to follow the lead of influential donors to steer its Grand Strategy program toward the established orthodoxy of the national security state doesn't just fail the principles of liberal education, it fails the long-term ability of the United States to steer a course in world affairs.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
10/5/2021
A Pyrrhic Victory for Plutocrats at Yale?
by Daniel Drezner
"Everyone in the academy is now fully aware of just how far Yale’s administration is willing to warp academic freedom in the pursuit of donor management. To say this is not a good look for an institution that relies on prestige and recognition would be an understatement."
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SOURCE: New York Times
9/30/2021
Beverly Gage Resigns from Yale's Grand Strategy Program, Citing Political Pressure from Large Donors
After a colleague wrote an op ed critical of Donald Trump in 2020, two Republican donors insisted on appointing an advisory board to the Grand Strategy program which included, against Professor Gage's wishes, Henry Kissinger.
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9/12/2021
The Missed Lesson of Vietnam: Plan for Unconditional Victory or Don't Intervene at All
by James D. Robenalt
Comparisons between American withdrawal from Vietnam and Afghanistan miss a key point: failure was overwhelmingly likely from the beginning because, if the United States was unwilling or unable to secure unconditional surrender, time was on the side of its foes.
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SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
8/27/2021
Saigon Didn't End U.S. "Credibility." Neither Will Kabul
by Mark Atwood Lawrence
Did the United States suffer any serious geopolitical setbacks as a result of Vietnam? The answer is neither simple nor straightforward.
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SOURCE: Salon
5/8/2021
What "Politics" Does to History: The Saga of Henry Kissinger and George Shultz's Right-Hand Man
by Jim Sleeper
A recent Yale memorial to the diplomat Morton Charles Hill largely glossed over Hill's and Yale's roles in crafting an imperialist American foreign policy and in educating generations of diplomats to subordinate honesty to "grand strategy."
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SOURCE: National Security Archive
3/23/2021
Argentina’s Military Coup of 1976: What the U.S. Knew
Newly declassified documents demonstrate that the US government, including Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, were aware of the developing coup and evaluated policy as a balancing of the prospective military dictatorship's friendliness to the US against its likely willingness to commit human rights violations.
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SOURCE: National History Center
9/10/2020
TODAY: Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography
The National History Center and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars host a virtual discussion today featuring Thomas Schwartz, author of "Henry Kissinger: A Political Biography."
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
9/4/2020
I Danced in the Streets after Allende’s Victory in Chile 50 Years Ago. Now I See its Lessons for Today
by Ariel Dorfman
The Chilean author Ariel Dorfman warns that while his country elected a democratic socialist in a landmark election, it was unprepared to deal with violent and ruthless efforts to maintain the status quo. Joe Biden is no socialist, but if he wins, his administration and Americans at large must be similarly prepared.
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SOURCE: New York Times
9/3/2020
The Terrible Cost of Presidential Racism
by Gary Bass
The emotional displays of prejudice revealed by newly uncensored White House tapes involving Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger help to explain a foreign policy debacle.
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SOURCE: Salon
8/17/2020
Trump's Dodgy Israel-UAE "Peace Deal" Smells like the Work of Henry Kissinger
by Jim Sleeper
Is the Israel-UAE agreement to open diplomatic relations an effort to marginalize the Palestinian Authority? Jim Sleeper argues it's the sort of thing Henry Kissinger would do.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
8/13/2020
The Inevitability of Defending Henry Kissinger
by Jim Sleeper
A new book on the Cold War statesman offers a dangerous justification for the unaccountability of powerful figures.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
5/11/2020
The Myth of Henry Kissinger
by Thomas Meaney
Barry Gewen's new biography of the American national security figure argues that Kissinger's perspective was shaped by stories older German emigres told him about the end of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Nazism.
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SOURCE: Time
2/6/19
How the U.S. Departure From Afghanistan Could Echo Kissinger's Moves in Vietnam
by David Kaiser
Neither involvement, in retrospect, was ever likely to have succeeded, because the political forces the U.S. chose to support were too weak to deal with an armed opposition supported from a neighboring territory.
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9/9/18
Kissinger Is at It Again
by Robert K. Brigham
At McCain’s funeral he presented himself as a foreign policy sage. He wasn’t one.
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