What Kissinger accomplished

With Nixon, their opening to China and detente with the Soviets helped elevate the US-led global system to the globalization we know today

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Everybody’s rendering their historical judgment this week on the life and times of Henry Kissinger, arguably the single most important US foreign policy figure of the Cold War outside of the presidents themselves. For a classic rendering, see Joseph Nye’s piece at Foreign Affairs. [SIDENOTE: I was a TA for Nye at Harvard and he …