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The Economist: Kissinger on avoiding world war

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Introduction

Henry Kissinger's undergraduate thesis set a record at Harvard. At 383 pages, it is thought to be the longest ever written. The young Kissinger took in thinkers from Socrates to Kant to Dostoevsky. For the best part of a century, Kissinger has thought about the relationships between the world's great powers. Today, a sense of that threat is palpable.

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