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    World Order

    Written by Henry Kissinger

    Narrated by Nicholas Hormann

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    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 Reykjavík. 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.

    Editor's Note

    Behind the dysfunction…

    Former US Secretary of State Kissinger’s comprehensive, compelling look at the history of world order is an eye-opening read, especially as partisan politics have seemingly become more divisive and disorderly.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateSep 9, 2014
    ISBN9780698179608
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    Henry Kissinger

    Henry Kissinger was the fifty-sixth Secretary of State. Born in Germany, Dr. Kissinger came to the United States in 1938 and was naturalized a US citizen in 1943. He served in the US Army in Europe in World War Two and attended Harvard University on a scholarship, where he later became a member of the faculty. Among the awards he has received are the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Medal of Liberty. He passed away in 2023 at the age of 100 at his home in Connecticut.

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    • 5/5
      History, sociology and geography all at the same time. It will help you see the world from a whole different perspective. This book should be mandatory in every university.
    • 4/5
      Kissinger clearly gives us the prespective of how the "World Order" definition was during course of History, reaching to our century, and how it should be. In a world filled with wars and conflicts (from political reasons to etnic), an Order that decides the fate of the world should be established for reaching the ultimate goal: peace. Examples of the term "World Order" in some political and religious prespectives such as the European, American, Asian and Islamic are decipted in this book and it's a true masterwork from one of the most influencial contemporary american political image such as Henry Kissinger.
    • 1/5
      Kissinger is a scumbag International jew who represents Lucifer and works for the destruction of God's children, the White race. He is a piece of shit and anything he says is full of lies and deception.
    • 5/5
      Amazing and mind expanding! So many things in international relations make more sense after listening to this book.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Mr. Kissinger has written an accessible book for those who want to learn about the history that gives us the relative peace we enjoy today. Not everyone may agree with his assessments but it's a great starting point for the conversation and debate we should be having.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      This is an awful book by a murderer. You would never think that Kissinger was Nixon's source in the Paris peace talks between the US and North Vietnam, and that he helped to sabotage them. He thinks that America should be Amerika and bomb everybody to pieces no matter what war we get into. He does not even read his own stuff: the contradictions between what he thought of Wilsonian precepts at their origin and then later when they were applied by everybody is stark. This man is a killer and should not be listened to.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 3/5
      lts good to now how a key politecian is thinking.