The Eccentric Realist: Henry Kissinger and the Shaping of American Foreign Policy

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Index ABM treaty, 101, 122–23 AFL-CIO, 113, 134, 137, 143 Africa, Soviet intervention in, 146, 180n1 age of consensus, 28 Albright, Madeleine, 3 alliance systems, contrasting features of, 25–26 Allin, Dana, 67 altruism, 75 American culture, influence of other cultures on, 25 Americanization, 25 American model denunciation of, 38–39 Soviet competition with, 25 triumph of, in 1950s, 22 universalism and, 22, 82, 107, 132 Amin, Idi, 116–17 amorality. See morality Andrianopoulos, Argyris G., 63, 96 Angola, Soviet intervention in, 146, 180n1 anti–ballistic missile defense programs, 118, 119. See also ABM treaty; missile defense system anti-Communism decline of influence of, 39 neoconservatism and, 121 and political liberties and freedom of expression, 27 public fears and, 27 Soviet nuclear capability and, 19 antimilitary sentiment, Vietnam War and, 37 anti-Soviet bloc. See Western bloc antiwar movement, 113, 114–15 appeasement, détente as, 8, 133, 146, 151, 154n8 Arab-Israeli War (October 1973), 138–39, 173n60 arms race, unmanageability of, 30–33 Asia, containment of Soviet influence in, 88–89 Page numbers followed by n designate endnotes. 184 Index Atlantic Alliance. See also European allies; Western bloc cohesion of challenged, 37, 61 collaboration within, 25–26 consultation procedures within, 62–64 Atlanticism, 37, 39, 63 atomic weapons. See nuclear weapons authoritarian regimes, Kissinger’s relations with, 154n8 balance of power alliance systems and, 26 asymmetry of, 17, 20, 24–25, 26, 33 National Security Council on, 81 Bergsten, Fred, 164n36 bipolarism European initiatives and, 93–98 Kissinger’s vision of, 63–64, 73, 81, 148–49 lack of alternatives to, 65–66 linkage and, 87–88 rapprochement with China and, 88–93 stability engendered by, 73 as strategic objective, 9–10, 81–86 Vietnam and, 98–100 bipolarization, 39 Bowie, Robert, 50 Braden, Tom, 106 Brandt, Willy, 72, 88, 94–98, 135 Bretton Woods system, 35 Brezhnev, Leonid, 129, 177n36 Brown, Harold, 128 Buchanan, Pat, 3 budget deficits containment and, 18 during Kennedy administration, 23 legitimization of, 23–24 Bundy, William, 34, 88 bureaucracy freedom from sought, 104–5 Kissinger’s criticism of, 70–71, 105 Burnham, James, 15, 16, 114 Bush, George H. W., 3, 126 Bush, George W., 2, 4, 110, 152 businessmen, pro-détente, 134 Cambodia, 99, 171n46 capitalistic model. See American model Carothers, Thomas, 3 Carter, Jimmy, 128–29, 144 Castlereagh, Viscount, 48, 49 Center for International Affairs, 56 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) censorship of, 126–27 conservative opposition to, 27 establishment of, 18 Right opposition of, 27 Chile human rights violations in, 139 1973 coup, 148 China Communist victory in, 12, 15 develops nuclear arsenal, 84 Johnson administration exploration of normalization of relations with, 78–79 Kissinger’s trips to, 1–2, 91–92, 106 rapprochement with, 9, 88–93, 106, 108 strategic interest of U.S. in, 89–90 Chinese civil war, 12 Chou En-lai, 72, 89, 90, 92 Church, Frank, 114 Churchill, Winston, 13, 133, 178n44 CIA. See Central Intelligence Agency City College of New York, 45 Coalition for a Democratic Majority, 120 Colby, William, 126 Cold War. See also containment basic terms and formulas questioned, 111 cognitive frames interiorized by Kissinger, 55 as ideological dispute, 13 late-1960s evolution of strategies in, 94 Lippman popularizes term, 15 New Left interpretation of, 39–40 success of U.S. policy during, 12 U.S. strategic superiority during, 18–20, 30–33 as A World Restored theme, 47 Cold War liberalism. See also neoconservatism crisis in, 9, 39, 111 Kissinger’s rejection of, 60, 71–73, 108 optimism of, 29–30 U.S. model for modernization in, 22 Vietnam War exposes limits of, 34 Commentary, 114 Committee on the Present Danger (CPD), 127–28, 129 Communist bloc, human rights violations in, 135, 147 communist governments, Kissinger on, 97 Index 185 Communist ideology. See also anti-Communism global penetration of, 30 post–World War II strategy against, 14 conceptualization, as key term in Kissingerian vocabulary, 49 conservative states, stability and, 47, 74 consultation procedures within Atlantic Alliance , 62–64 containment costs of, 17–20 crisis of, 29–30, 150–51 development of policy, 12–14 domestic consensus and, 26–29, 39–42, 150–51 initial objections to, 15–16, 26–27 Kissingerian discourse as antithesis to, 75 Kissinger on Eisenhower’s application of, 57 Kissinger’s objection to, 73 objectives of, 16–17, 29 resources required by, 20–24, 33–36 strategic superiority...