What Kissinger did not understand about Cyprus

It has been about a year since the passing of Henry Kissinger, but Thomas Alan Schwartz, American foreign relations historian, has not lost his interest in the life and especially the actions of the controversial former US secretary of state. Besides, he wrote about it in his book "Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography" (published by Hill and Wang, 2020). It is perhaps Schwartz's work as a biographer that makes him note the polarization of opinion that the late top American diplomat still stirs up.

The negative assessments of the "reviled" Kissinger do not come only from the left but from other political sides too, though he maintains "a certain respect within the American establishment," he tells Kathimerini. In fact, Johns Hopkins University opened the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs this year. "I think the polarization of opinion about...