Debates On Kissinger’s Legacy

Obituaries and commentaries published after the death of former United States Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Henry Alfred Kissinger (1923-2023) described him as “the master of events” with a long journey of exemplary career. He was the “Cold War’s most powerful Secretary of State and a peerless elder statesman,” with a complex legacy. There are both critics and admirers describing him as “one of the most controversial and influential foreign policy thinkers and practitioners of the past 50 years.” They are divided on whether he was a “towering statesman or war criminal?”