Introduction does history make statesmen or do statesmen make history?

Henry Kissinger, Zhou Enlai, and the U.S.-China opening, 1971-1972

Mikhail Gorbachev : ending the Cold War, 1985-1991

Wilson and FDR : failure of the League of Nations, birth of the United Nations

UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjøld : the "secular pope," 1953-1961

Nelson Mandela, iconic statesman of reconciliation, 1989-1999

Yitzhak Rabin, soldier as peacemaker, 1992-1995

Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams, Northern Ireland women for peace, 1972-1977

Gandhi : exemplar of anticolonialism, apostle of nonviolence, 1914-1948

Lech Walesa : from communism to democracy, 1980-1990

Aung San Suu Kyi : a cautionary tale, 1988-2015, 2016

Peter Benenson, Amnesty International and the global human rights movement, 1961-1967

Gro Harlem Brundtland : our common future, 1987-2003

Gates Foundation and global health : philanthropy statesmanship, 2000-

Epilogue : twenty- first- century statesmanship : difficult, possible, necessary.