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American Foreign Policy is a book by Henry Kissinger that outlines his views of the international political structure. It is composed of essays on diplomacy and several speeches he made during his political career.

Contents 1 Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy 1.1 The Role of Domestic Structure 1.2 The Impact of the Administrative Structure 1.3 The Nature of Leadership 1.4 Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy: The Prospects for World Order 2 Central Issues of American Foreign Policy 3 The Year of Europe 4 The Nature of the National Dialogue 5 The Quest for Peace in the Middle East 6 The Process of Detente 7 From Coexistence to World Community 8 The Moral Foundation of Foreign Policy 9 International Law, World Order, and Human Progress 10 Global Consensus and Economic Development 11 Global Peace, the Middle East, and the United States 12 The Permanent Challenge of Peace: US Policy Towards the Soviet Union 13 The Americas in a Changing World 14 Foreign Policy and National Security 15 Southern Africa and the United States: An Agenda for Cooperation 16 The Industrial Democracies: The Imperative of Cooperation 17 =America and Asia

[edit] Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy

In the first essay within the book, Kissinger traces the impact of domestic structure on diplomacy. This essay is divided into 4 parts:

[edit] The Role of Domestic Structure

Kissinger counters the common "billiard ball" model of international politics in this section, describing the inherent impact of domestic realities on foreign policy.

[edit] The Impact of the Administrative Structure

The bureaucratic impact on the decision making process is here examined, with Kissinger detailing the rigidity that bureaucracies enforce, and the possibilities for more dynamic changes in nations where the decision making process is not institutionalized.

[edit] The Nature of Leadership

This part of the essay outlines 3 different kinds of leadership: Bureaucratic-Pragmatic Leadership,Ideological Leadership, and Charismatic-Revolutionary Leadership.

[edit] Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy: The Prospects for World Order

This discusses the philosophical/political schism between two different world ideologies: the "statesman", which adopts a pragmatic approach toward reality and the "prophet" who adopts an ideological approach toward reality.

[edit] Central Issues of American Foreign Policy

[edit] The Year of Europe

[edit] The Nature of the National Dialogue

[edit] The Quest for Peace in the Middle East

[edit] The Process of Detente

[edit] From Coexistence to World Community

[edit] The Moral Foundation of Foreign Policy

[edit] International Law, World Order, and Human Progress

[edit] Global Consensus and Economic Development

[edit] Global Peace, the Middle East, and the United States

[edit] The Permanent Challenge of Peace: US Policy Towards the Soviet Union

[edit] The Americas in a Changing World

[edit] Foreign Policy and National Security

[edit] Southern Africa and the United States: An Agenda for Cooperation

[edit] The Industrial Democracies: The Imperative of Cooperation

[edit] =America and Asia

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