Hello and welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.

Following the death of the former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger,

another chance now to hear Kissinger, which was released in 2022.

You're listening to Kissinger's century here on BBC World Service.

In his hundreds year Henry Kissinger is still thinking and writing

about the state of the world. No one alive has spent longer as a diplomatic go-between and

fixer, before he was the engineer of Richard Nixon's foreign policy in the White House, and ever since.

The refugee from Nazi Germany became a Harvard academic, then the negotiator in Vietnam and the Middle East with China and Russia, whose

interpretation of Rial Politique brought him fame and power and a horde of fierce critics. This is James Nachty, and I went to Kissinger's home in New England

to talk about his new book, Leadership and his life. There was only one way to begin.

In a disordered world, how would he describe the edge we're living in?

It's an age of simultaneous global transition. Apeable in some parts, evolution in others,

but none of the institutions very stable and all of them in the process

international and many national moving towards a yet unachieved destination.

That must mean that it is not just because of the Fisher that runs through Ukraine,

but for other reasons too, a dangerous time.

Yes, because even saying in the Ukraine different participants evaluate the importance

of specific decisions unequally. So unevenness is not only in the way the issues appear, but in the evolution that they generate.

This brings us to the question of leadership about which you've been thinking for, of course, many decades.

And one of your great themes has always been that our

history as individuals and as nations lives with us and those memories shape

us and in a way should shape us.

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