Kissinger’s Quest for Legitimacy and Order: Masterstrokes with Systemic Effects?
For his whole life, Kissinger had been centrally concerned with seeking stability, legitimacy, and order. Deeply haunted by the modern European experience of almost incessant wars in over five centuries (including his own first-handed experience of the rise of Nazi Germany), Kissinger is naturally a...
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| Language: | English |
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World Scientific Publishing
2025-06-01
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| Series: | Chinese Journal of International Review |
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| Online Access: | https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/S2630531325500076 |
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| Summary: | For his whole life, Kissinger had been centrally concerned with seeking stability, legitimacy, and order. Deeply haunted by the modern European experience of almost incessant wars in over five centuries (including his own first-handed experience of the rise of Nazi Germany), Kissinger is naturally attracted to the exhilaration of “restoring a world” back to stability and order by great statesmen such as Metternich and Castlereagh. “A reconstruction of international system is the ultimate challenge to statesmanship…” (Kissinger, 2014, p. 371) This essay takes a critical look at what Kissinger had written on stability, legitimacy, and order in order to draw some useful lessons. |
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| ISSN: | 2630-5313 2630-5321 |