Summary
Kissinger 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. Full description
- Introduction: The question of world order
- Europe : the pluralistic international order
- The European balance-of-power system and its end
- Islamism and the Middle East : a world in disorder
- The United States and Iran : approaches to order
- The multiplicity of Asia
- Toward an Asian order : confrontation or partnership?
- "Acting for all mankind" : the United States and its concept of order
- The United States : ambivalent superpower
- Technology, equilibrium, and human consciousness
- Conclusion: World order in our time?.