Captivating and enlightening, a seminal new book. Henry Kissinger offers a profound meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder in "World Order." Drawing on his experience as one of the leading statesmen of the modern era – having advised presidents, traveled the world, and observed and shaped the key foreign policy events of recent decades – Kissinger now reveals his analysis of the ultimate challenge of the twenty-first century: how to build a common international order in a world with diverging historical perspectives, violent conflicts, proliferating technology, and ideological extremism. Kissinger notes that there has never been a true world order. For most of history, civilizations defined their own concepts of order. Each considered itself the center of the world and presented its own principles as universally relevant.