American foreign policy : [electronic resource] three essays / [by] Henry A. Kissinger.

Includes index.

Domestic structure and foreign policy. The role of domestic structure ; The impact of the administrative structure ; The nature of leadership ; Domestic structure and foreign policy: the prospects for world order -- Central issues of American foreign policy. The structural problem ; The limits of bipolarity: the nature of power in the modern period ; Political multipolarity: the changed nature of alliances ; Bipolarity and multipolarity: the conceptual problem ; An inquiry into the American national interest -- The Vietnam negotiations. The situation within South Vietnam prior to negotiations ; The environment of negotiations ; Commitment and risk in Vietnam diplomacy: the problem of the bombing halt ; Ceasefire and coalition government ; Where do we go from here?