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Review: https://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21669596-americas-greatest-modern-diplomat-was-also-one-its-great-thinkers-ideas-man
Reason: Get to know him better, especially early years. The demanding intellect needed to find solutions to problems of extreme complexity. Make your own mind up. See review.
Reason: Bernard Williams was a brilliant philosopher concerned with ethics. The essay gives his classic touch and analysis into the difference between realism (facts) and the moralism in political theory - which may be a basis for the counterpoint you are looking for.
Reason: It gets to your interest in how to make sense of what is going on today
Reason: A student of Kissinger if you like, but as a realist, sees and tries to explain how 'winter is coming.'
https://www.amazon.com/Crowds-Power-Elias-Canetti/dp/0374518203
Reason: Masterpiece. Good riposte to David Hume's question "Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers." He also said that 'force is on the side of the governed.' That would be the real counterpoint to a world Kissinger was working with but did not create.
[Crowds and Power] (http://www.amazon.com/Crowds-Power-Elias-Canetti/dp/0374518203/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331983691&sr=1-1) by Elias Canetti is very fascinating. I find it easy to read as well.
because a religion is a group of people, there is only one thing a group of people want: to become a bigger group. read this book and everything which happens in the world becomes a little clearer
this goes for any group by the way atheists, not just religious ones