bDazzling and instructive . . . a magisterial new book. --Walter Isaacson, iTimebribrAn astute analysis that illuminates many of today's critical international issues. --ibKirkus Reviewsbib pHenry Kissinger offers in iWorld Orderi 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. pThere 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.