No one can lay claim to so much influence on the shaping of foreign policy over the past 50 years as Henry Kissinger. In and out of office, he has been intelligently ubiquitous. Almost two decades have passed since the publication of Diplomacy, a masterly study of the subject that will long endure as a bible for all who believe that nation states remain the principal building blocks in international politics, whatever the human aspirations towards international co-operation。
过去50年间,在外交政策的形成方面影响最大者,莫过于亨利•基辛格(Henry Kissinger)。无论在朝还是在野,基辛格的身影无处不在,这当属明智。《大外交》(Diplomacy)一书出版至今,已近二十载。其中有一个观点:无论人类多么渴望国际合作,国家仍将是国际政治基石。在信奉这一观点的人心目中,基辛格这本研究外交的经典著作,堪称一部经久不衰的“圣经”。