Thursday 15 January 2015, 6.30 - 8.00pm, Tower 2, 9.04
Speakers: Professor Mario del Pero, Professor Jussi Hanhimäki; Chair: Dr Piers Ludlow
Henry Kissinger, responsible for US foreign policy under Presidents Nixon and Ford, remains one of the best-known and most controversial Secretaries of State in US history. In the context of a shifting world order and talk of a ‘new Cold War’, two leading Kissinger experts discuss the legacies of his foreign policy and how his thinking continues to influence US policy today.
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Speakers:
Professor Mario Del Pero is Professor of History at Sciences Po (Paris) and author of The Eccentric Realist: Henry Kissinger and the Shaping of American Foreign Policy.
Professor Jussi Hanhimäki is Professor of International History and Politics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva) and author of The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy.
Chair:
Dr Piers Ludlow is Head of the Cold War Studies Programme at LSE IDEAS and Associate Professor of International History at LSE.
Location:
Tower 2, Room 9.04, LSE. Map.