Title: Cyprus and Kissinger: Killing the Myth
Presenter: Dr William Malleson
Synopsis
The mainstream press and various embedded party-political designer academics and self-serving journalists have tended to play down Kissinger’s crimes against humanity. However, a perusal of the archives, in particular the British ones, gives a very different story, leading this historian to see Kissinger as a mediocre pseudo-intellectual academic, who owed his prominence to Nelson Rockefeller. He depended on his book A World Restored, following his obsession with, especially, Metternich, to the grave. This paper tells the story as it really is.
Bio
William Mallinson, Professor of Political Ideas and Institutions at Guglielmo Marconi University, a member of the editorial committee of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies , and a member of Cambridge Scholars Publishing’s Editorial Advisory Group (history), is a former Member of Her Majesty’s Diplomatic Service who left to study for, and was awarded, his Ph.D. at the London School of Economics and Political Science’s Department of International History. He is the author of 'Cyprus: A Modern History' (I.B.Tauris, 2005, updated 2009), 'From Neutrality to Commitment: Dutch Foreign Policy, NATO and European Integration' (I.B.Tauris, 2010) and 'Cyprus: Diplomatic History and the Clash of Theory in International Relations' (I.B.Tauris, 2010).
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