“Kissinger analyses the lives of six…leaders through the distinctive strategies of statecraft, which he believes they embodied. After the Second World War, Konrad Adenauer brought defeated and morally bankrupt Germany back into the community of nations by what Kissinger calls ‘the strategy of humility.’ Charles de Gaulle set France beside the victorious Allies and renewed its historic grandeur by ‘the strategy of will.’ During the Cold War, Richard Nixon gave geostrategic advantage to the United States by ‘the strategy of equilibrium.’ After twenty-five years of conflict, Anwar Sadat brought a vision of peace to the Middle East by a ‘strategy of transcendence.’ Against the odds, Lee Kuan Yew created a powerhouse city-state, Singapore, by ‘the strategy of excellence.’ And, though Britain was known as ‘the sick man of Europe’ when Margaret Thatcher came to power, she renewed her country’s morale and international position by ‘the strategy of conviction.'” —
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- Book Group: Table for Two by Amor Towels, Oct 16, 2024 @ 2:00
- Book Club: Breaking Through by Katalin Karikó, Nov 13, 2024
- Book Club: Bttle of Ink & Ice by Darrell Hartman, Dec 11, 2024
- Current Affairs 2pm October 17,2024, Sunil Saksena will lead a Current Affairs discussion about India’s economy, its politics, the state of its democracy, its foreign policy and whether Washington’s growing friendship with India will yield the results it expects.
- Current Affairs, 2pm November 21st, Where do you get your news? Jim Cameron will review the latest online and print options and perhaps show you some new, credible resources for keeping up with local happenings.