"Dazzling and instructive . . . [a] magisterial new book." -Walter
Isaacson, Time "An astute analysis that illuminates many of today's
critical international issues." -Kirkus Reviews Henry Kissinger
offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of
international harmony and global disorder. Drawing on his
experience as one of the foremost statesmen of the modern
era-advising presidents, traveling the world, observing and shaping
the central foreign policy events of recent decades-Kissinger now
reveals his analysis of the ultimate challenge for the twenty-first
century: how to build a shared international order in a world of
divergent historical perspectives, violent conflict, proliferating
technology, and ideological extremism. There has never been a true
"world order," Kissinger observes. For most of history,
civilizations defined their own concepts of order. Each considered
itself the center of the world and envisioned its distinct
principles as universally relevant. China conceived of a global
cultural hierarchy with the emperor at its pinnacle. In Europe,
Rome imagined itself surrounded by barbarians; when Rome
fragmented, European peoples refined a concept of an equilibrium of
sovereign states and sought to export it across the world. Islam,
in its early centuries, considered itself the world's sole
legitimate political unit, destined to expand indefinitely until
the world was brought into harmony by religious principles. The
United States was born of a conviction about the universal
applicability of democracy-a conviction that has guided its
policies ever since. Now international affairs take place on a
global basis, and these historical concepts of world order are
meeting. Every region participates in questions of high policy in
every other, often instantaneously. Yet there is no consensus among
the major actors about the rules and limits guiding this process or
its ultimate destination. The result is mounting tension. Grounded
in Kissinger's deep study of history and his experience as national
security advisor and secretary of state, World Order guides readers
through crucial episodes in recent world history. Kissinger offers
a unique glimpse into the inner deliberations of the Nixon
administration's negotiations with Hanoi over the end of the
Vietnam War, as well as Ronald Reagan's tense debates with Soviet
Premier Gorbachev in Reykjavik. He offers compelling insights into
the future of U.S.-China relations and the evolution of the
European Union, and he examines lessons of the conflicts in Iraq
and Afghanistan. Taking readers from his analysis of nuclear
negotiations with Iran through the West's response to the Arab
Spring and tensions with Russia over Ukraine, World Order anchors
Kissinger's historical analysis in the decisive events of our time.
Provocative and articulate, blending historical insight with
geopolitical prognostication, World Order is a unique work that
could come only from a lifelong policy maker and diplomat.
Kissinger is also the author of On China.
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