World Order
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (920 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00NAAMQY0 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 569 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Very, very helpful work from Kissinger Jupiter Must read! This work will go far to clear up your confusion about what you are seeing on TV News. Chapter 3 is nothing short of an Enlightenment but you need to read the Intro & Chapter 1 to fully benefit from Chapter 3. Kissinger is the NUMBER ONE mind on foreign policy, and this is his current work on the state of the world, how we got to this point, and what may come next. He writes like he speaks densely packed, few wasted words. This is a reference quality piece of work and not something to breeze through but you will come away from it with much better understanding of civilization, and events now happening in our world. He tells it l. DB said A must-read. With his characteristic flair and command of political history, Dr. Kissinger has once again authored a book that examines the development of political systems through the lenses of history, economics, and, interestingly enough, psychology. ("Diplomacy" is, in my opinion, another example of this type of narrative.) Despite his often intimidating intellect, Dr. Kissinger has a talent for writing for the scholar and the layman. A genuine interest in the subject matter is a prerequisite for successfully approaching any of his works, but one does not need to have a post-graduate education to appreciate (or to understand) his writing. In "World Or. "Kissinger confirms Huntington and Fukuyama" according to Karel Vosskühler. After his comprehensive book on Diplomacy, Kissinger covers some of the same ground, but this time focusing on world order, in an analytical, political-realist manner as could be expected from the great master. Like Samuel Huntington and Francis Fukuyama (the latter in his two exhaustive volumes on the origins of political order) he basically concludes that Western civilization is singular and that its concepts and values apply only to a limited degree in other civilizational areas. As Huntington put it: 'What is universalism to the West, is imperialim to the rest). This being the case, Kissinger could have been a bit more critical about his
China conceived of a global cultural hierarchy with the Emperor at its pinnacle. Yet there is no consensus among the major actors about the rules and limits guiding this process, or its ultimate destination. 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. For most of history, civilizations defined their own concepts of order. Grounded in Kissinger's deep study of history and experience as national security advisor and secreta