TY - BOOK AU - Kissinger,Henry TI - World order: reflections on the character of nations and the course of history SN - 9780241004265 AV - JZ1242 .K575 2014 U1 - 327 PY - 2014/// CY - London PB - Penguin Press KW - World politics KW - 21st century KW - Security, International KW - International relations KW - Geopolitics KW - fast N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-403) and index; The Question of World Order -- Europe: The Pluralistic International Order -- The European Balance-of-Power System and Its End -- Islamism and the Middle East: A World in Disorder -- The United States and Iran: Approaches to Order -- The Multiplicity of Asia -- Toward an Asian Order: Confrontation or Partnership? -- "Acting for All Mankind": The United States and Its Concept of Order -- The United States: Ambivalent Superpower -- Technology, Equilibrium, and Human Consciousness -- World Order in Our Time? ER -