Foreign Policy Research Institute

He is the author who opined that "geography is taking revenge" and that "you have to think about war, that's the only way to be prepared." Kathimerini met with the distinguished geopolitical analyst Robert Kaplan, Robert Strausz-Hupe Chair at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), in the "library" of the 9th Delphi Economic Forum after his speech.

Namely, Kissinger, writing on the subject for the conservative British magazine "D Spectator", stated that the Ukrainian conflict has clear parallels with the year 1914, when all the great powers were gradually drawn into the military conflict.

“Kissinger’s moves signaled to the broader Turkish establishment that aggression works. Kissinger flattered the Turkish notion that size matters”

Henry Kissinger famously once said that Germany is too big for Europe but too small for the world. Today, considerable changes to the international balance of power mainly due to the emergence of systemic multipolarity raise the question of European leadership giving a new dimension to Kissinger's old quote.