La comunicazione politica di Henry Kissinger

Abstract

The paper focuses on Henry Alfred Kissinger’s language. His intimate portraits of world leaders provide the reader with a rare window on summit diplomacy, together with a wealth of detailed and original observations on secret negotiations, great events, and the art of statesmanship. Kissinger illustrates his points with examples and quotations of a deep historical knowledge regarding great personalities (especially Metternich, Bismark and Richelieu), lapidary sentences, witty remarks, figures ofspeech, likeness, wit, a gift for irony, and a unique  understanding of the forces that bind and sunder nations,qualities and techniques that have the most persuasive effect on the audience.L’Auteur examine, dans l’oeuvre de H. A. Kissinger, le côté principes de science politique et art de la négociation diplomatique. De ses récits d’événements historiques, de ses portrait d’hommes d’État, de ses commentaires sur les finesses du language diplomatique il extraits des citations qui montrent ses grandes qualités d’interprète des forces sous-jacentes la politique internationale et son talent de communicateur.PAROLE CHIAVE: Arte di governo; Realpolitik; Linguaggio diplomatico; Politica esteraamericana; Figure retoriche della politica.