This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Government and History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. This course is available to General Course students.
This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Government and History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. This course is available to General Course students.
The School aims to run in-person classes and seminars, subject to circumstances, with some online provision if and where necessary.There will be a reading week in the Michaelmas and the Lent Terms.
A 2,000-word essay in the Michaelmas Term.
Roham Alvandi, Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: The United States and Iran in the Cold War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014) Garry Bass, The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide (New York: Knopf, 2013) Mario Del Pero, The Eccentric Realist: Henry Kissinger and the Shaping of American Foreign Policy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010) Niall Ferguson, Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist (New York: Penguin, 2015) Jussi Hanhim?ki, The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004) Christopher Hitchens, The Trial of Henry Kissinger (London: Verso, 2001) Barbara Keys, Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014) Henry Kissinger, American Foreign Policy: Three Essays (New York: W. W. Norton, 1969) Henry Kissinger, White House Years (Boston, Little, Brown, 1979) Henry Kissinger, Years of Upheaval (Boston: Little, Brown, 1982) Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994) Henry Kissinger, Years of Renewal (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999) Henry Kissinger, Crisis: The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy Crises (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003) Henry Kissinger, Ending the Vietnam War: A History of America?s Involvement in and Extrication from the Vietnam War (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003) Henry Kissinger, World Order (New York: Penguin, 2014) Frederick Logevall and Andrew Preston (eds.), Nixon in the World: American Foreign Relations, 1969-1977 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008) Daniel Sargent, A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015) Sarah Snyder, Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War: A Transnational History of the Helsinki Network (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011) Jeremi Suri, Henry Kissinger and the American Century (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007)
Essay (35%, 3500 words) in the LT. Essay (35%, 3500 words) in the ST. Presentation (15%) and class participation (15%) in the MT and LT. 3,500-word review essay on an extract from Kissinger?s memoirs, using primary sources, due in the Lent Term (35%); 3,500-word review essay on Hitchens?s Trial of Henry Kissinger, using primary sources, due in the Summer Term (35%); Class presentation (15%); Class participation (15%).