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In the book, he explains how Western ideas changed with the 1648 Peace of Westphalia treaty, [2] [unreliable source?] and explains the four systems of historic world order: the Westphalian Peace born of 17th-century Europe, the central imperium philosophy of China, the religious supremacism of political Islam, and the democratic idealism of the ...
The Ibaloi (also spelled Ibaloy; Ibaloi: ivadoy, /ivaˈdoj/) are an indigenous ethnic group found in Benguet province of the northern Philippines. [2] Ibaloi is derived from i- , a prefix signifying "pertaining to" and badoy or house, together then meaning "people who live in houses".
Strategic frivolity in foreign policy defines shortsighted political decisions that are not connected to the long-term interests of the country making those decisions. [1] [2] [3] Henry Kissinger used the term in his book World Order (2014) [4] while describing the policies that caused the First World War and remarked that "history punishes strategic frivolity sooner or later".
It is a sweep of the history of international relations and the art of diplomacy that largely concentrates on the 20th century and the Western World.Kissinger, as a great believer in the realist school (realism) of international relations, focuses strongly on the concepts of the balance of power in Europe prior to World War I, raison d'État and Realpolitik throughout the ages of diplomatic ...
Following the Vietnam War, Kissinger sought to reshape the U.S. approach to international relations, seeking a balance of power which could produce stability and thereby reduce military and political tensions between the three main players in the international order; the Soviet Union, the United States, and China.
Henry Kissinger, the most powerful U.S. diplomat of the Cold War era, who helped Washington open up to China, forge arms control deals with the Soviet Union and end the Vietnam War, but who was ...
Kissinger's diplomacy “did reduce the likelihood of another full-scale Arab-Israeli war. It also made it really difficult, and some would argue impossible, to address the underlying issue ...
American Foreign Policy: Three Essays is a 1969 book by Henry Kissinger that outlines his views of the international political structure. It is composed of essays on diplomacy and several speeches he made during his political career.