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Henry Kissinger leaves behind a complex legacy, remembered as a master of global politics by some and an alleged war criminal by others

Henry Kissinger was the ultimate champion of the United States’ foreign policy battles.

Henry Kissinger, the former US secretary of state whose unapologetic promotion of raw American power helped shape the post-World War II world, died Wednesday at the age of 100, his consulting firm said.

An ‘enigmatic realist’ who fled Nazi Germany, Kissinger is remembered for ending the US war in Vietnam, opening China.

Henry Kissinger, who died on Nov. 29, 2023 at the age of 100, stood as a colossus of U.S. foreign policy. His influence on American politics lasted long beyond his eight-year stint guiding the Nixon and Ford administrations as national security adviser and secretary of state, with successive presidents, presidential…

US secretary of state with peerless diplomatic skills, tireless energy and a ruthless desire to protect his country’s interests

Brilliant, abrasive and ruthlessly ambitious, Henry Kissinger towered over post-World War II US foreign policy like no one else and shaped a fateful new course for the world's relationship with China.

During his time in office and in the decades after he met British politicians and members of the royal family, including the Queen.

Kissinger's guiding foreign policy principle was that strategic national interests take priority over more idealistic aims, like the promotion of human rights and democracy.

Henry Kissinger is the only man to have served as secretary of state and national security advisor at the same time. He earned a Nobel Peace Prize but drew heated criticism.

Influential US secretary of state to Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford and Nobel Peace Prize winner remembered as arch practitioner of ‘realpolitik’ who was revered and reviled in equal measure, writes Ariana Baio