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。
過去50年間,在外交政策的形成方面影響最大者,莫過於亨利•季辛吉(Henry Kissinger)。無論在朝還是在野,季辛吉的身影無處不在,這當屬明智。《大外交》(Diplomacy)一書出版至今,已近二十載。其中有一個觀點:無論人類多麼渴望國際合作,國家仍將是國際政治基石。在信奉這一觀點的人心目中,季辛吉這本研究外交的經典著作,堪稱一部經久不衰的「聖經」。