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There is substantial agreement that the intellectual capital political leaders bring to their office has an impact on their actions. Indeed, Kissinger, declared:
It is an illusion to believe that leaders gain in profundity while they gain experience. As I have said, the convictions that leaders have formed before reaching high office are the intellectual capital they will consume as long as they continue in office. There is little time for leaders to reflect…
When I entered office, I brought with me a philosophy formed by two decades of the study of history…1
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Henry A. Kissinger, White House Years (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1979), p. 54.
Kissinger, “The Meaning of History” (Unpublished Undergraduate Thesis, Harvard University, 1950), pp. 347–48.
Kissinger, A World Restored: Europe After Napoleon (Glouster, Mass: Peter Smith, 1973). Kissinger used the terms “stable order” and “legitimate order” interchangeably.
Ibid,. p. 1; Kissinger, “The White Revolutionary: Reflections on Bismarck,” Daedalus 97 (Summer 1968):899–900; Dickson, Kissinger and the Meaning of History, p. 20.
Kissinger, A World Restored, pp. 1–2; Henry A. Kissinger, Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957), pp. 141–42, 317; abridged edn (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1969), pp. 44, 122.
Kissinger, American Foreign Policy (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1969), pp. 53–55; Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy, pp. 5–6; abridged edn, pp. 2–3; The Necessity for Choice (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1961), pp. 2, 6. Falk, What’s Wrong with Henry Kissinger’s Foreign Policy, p. 14. Falk recognized the shift in emphasis in Kissinger’s writings but stated that it became evident in The Necessity for Choice.
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Andrianopoulos, G.A. (1991). The Philosophical Beliefs of Henry Kissinger. In: Kissinger and Brzezinski. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21741-0_2
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