On the occasion of the death of Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger has died, at the age of 100 in his home in Connecticut, whose legacy includes the Henry Kissinger Professorship for Security and Strategy Research at the University of Bonn.

A thinker and practitioner of Realpolitik, Henry Kissinger played a major role in American foreign policy during the 1960s and 1970s. From 1968 to 1975 he was National Security Advisor, and was US Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977, serving under both President Richard Nixon and President Henry Ford. Henry Kissinger was, among many other things, the architect behind the normalization of relations between the US and China, and of the policy of détente with the Soviet Union. In 1973 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the part he played in ending the Vietnam War. ...