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World order : reflections on the character of nations and the course of history / Henry Kissinger.

World order : reflections on the character of nations and the course of history / Henry Kissinger.
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ISBN 9780241004265 (hardback)
Name Kissinger, Henry, 1923- author.
Title World order : reflections on the character of nations and the course of history / Henry Kissinger.
Published London : Allen Lane, 2014.
©2014
Description 420 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Henry Kissinger has traveled the world, advised presidents, and been a close observer and participant in the central foreign policy events of our era. Now he offers his analysis of the twenty first century’s ultimate challenge: how to build a shared international order in a world of divergent historic 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 considered itself the world’s sole legitimate political unit, destined to expand indefinitely until the world was brought into harmony by Muslim principles. The United States was born of a conviction about the universal applicability of democratic principles, a conviction that has guided its policies ever since. Grounded in Kissinger’s deep study of history and experience as national security advisor and secretary of state, this book guides readers on a tour of the globe. It examines the events and ideas that formed the historic concepts of order, their manifestations in contemporary controversies, and the ways in which they might ultimately be reconciled.
Subjects International organization
Geopolitics
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