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The Testament of Henry Kissinger: Six Models of Leadership in an Era of Deficient Strategic Thinking and Political Foresight

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S2686673025040089-1
DOI
10.31857/S2686673025040089
Publication type
Article
Status
Published
Authors
Vakhtang Surguladze
  • Occupation: Candidate of Sciences (Philosophy), senior lecturer of the Chair of political science of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Mass Communications
  • Affiliation: Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
Volume/ Edition
Volume / Issue number 4
Pages
107-126
Abstract
"Leadership" is the latest book by Henry Kissinger, patriarch of world diplomacy, Secretary of State and Adviser to the President of the United States on National Security. (The book was published in English in 2022 and had a subtitle omitted in the Russian-language edi- tion: Six Studies on Global Strategy). The book is based on a study of six styles of leadership, six biographies of famous political figures of the twentieth century, with whom H. Kissinger had the opportunity to meet and work. For each politician whose motives and activities are analyzed in the book, the author has identified a special feature characterizing the leadership strategy: Konrad Adenauer has a strategy of humility, Charles de Gaulle has a strategy of will, Richard Nixon has a strategy of equilibrium, Anwar Sadat has a strategy of transcendence, Lee Kuan Yew has a strategy of excellence, Margaret Thatcher has a strategy of conviction. The assessments of the leaders considered in the book are naturally americanocentric, made through the prism of ideas about the national interests of the United States and their foreign policy and ideological aspirations. However, despite this feature, H. Kissinger's view of the biographies of famous politicians is of great interest due to the interpretations of their activities by a well- known master of diplomacy, an expert in the history and theory of international relations, a direct active participant in many events discussed in the book.
Keywords
Генри Киссинджер лидерство элитология стратегическое видение принятие политических решений политическая психология
Date of publication
17.09.2025
Year of publication
2025
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