Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of internat
ional harmony and global disorder. Drawing on his experience as one of the forem
ost statesmen of the modern era advising presidents, traveling the world, observ
ing and shaping the central foreign policy events of recent decades Kissinger no
w reveals his analysis of the ultimate challenge for the twenty-first century: h
ow to build a shared international order in a world of divergent historical pers
pectives, violent conflict, proliferating technology, and ideological extremism.
