December 4, 2023

When Henry Kissinger died last week, I wasn’t entirely sure how to approach it. Opinions of Kissinger are so deeply (and fascinatingly) divided that linking to just one side’s view of the man, if only for a day, felt like a disservice to the other side. Fortunately, the editors at Responsible Statecraft came up with a brilliant workaround to this dilemma. They asked a number of foreign policy experts and historians for their thoughts on Kissinger and his legacy, then posted all of them. The result is a comprehensive assessment of a man who defied easy categorization.