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<p> The Eccentric Realist is a remarkable piece of scholarship. By viewing Henry Kissinger both as a realist in the European tradition and as an American attuned to U.S. moral absolutism, Del Pero lays bare the inherent contradictions in the detente project and the causes for its ultimate failure. -Odd Arne Westad, author of The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times

<p> Mario Del Pero brings a fresh and vivid intelligence to his analysis of American foreign and domestic policy as shaped and practiced by Henry Kissinger. The Eccentric Realist is a brilliant discussion of the decidedly unrealistic nature of Kissinger's realism, the circularity of his bipolar view of the world, and his ultimate defeat at the hands of newly powerful neoconservative forces. The timeliness of Del Pero's work is daily evident in the return, perhaps only temporary, of ostensible realism to the conduct of American foreign policy. -Marilyn B. Young, New York University, author of The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990

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Mario Del Pero is Associate Professor of History at the University of Bologna.

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