Kissinger's characterization of the American approach to North Korea encapsulates his pinched view of U.S. strategy.

Extraordinary advances of democracy have occurred in recent months: elections in Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine and Palestine; local elections in Saudi Arabia; Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon; the opening up of the presidential election in Egypt; and upheavals against entrenched authoritarians in Kyrgyzstan. This welcome trend was partly triggered by President Bush's Middle East policy and accelerated by his second inaugural address, which elevated the progress of freedom in the world to the defining objective of U.S. foreign policy.

Review of The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy by Jussi Hanhimaki.

The 30th anniversary of the coup d'etat that deposed Chile's Marxist president Salvador Allende has gone, but not without a burst of accusations of American complicity with that event.

Thinking back to his days as secretary of state, Mr. Shultz is quoted saying: "The world was not ready for a world free of nuclear weapons." It still isn't.

Review of Does America Need a Foreign Policy? Toward a Diplomacy for the Twenty-first Century, by Henry Kissinger

The story of how the rhythms, tenor, and characteristics of the Sino-American relationship began is recalled in vivid detail and with characteristic eloquence by Kissinger in his new book, On China.