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Index
Cover
Also by Henry Kissinger
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Dedication
INTRODUCTION: The Question of World Order
Varieties of World Order
Legitimacy and Power
CHAPTER 1: Europe: The Pluralistic International Order
The Uniqueness of the European Order
The Thirty Years’ War: What Is Legitimacy?
The Peace of Westphalia
The Operation of the Westphalian System
The French Revolution and Its Aftermath
CHAPTER 2: The European Balance-of-Power System and Its End
The Russian Enigma
The Congress of Vienna
The Premises of International Order
Metternich and Bismarck
The Dilemmas of the Balance of Power
Legitimacy and Power Between the World Wars
The Postwar European Order
The Future of Europe
CHAPTER 3: Islamism and the Middle East: A World in Disorder
The Islamic World Order
The Ottoman Empire: The Sick Man of Europe
The Westphalian System and the Islamic World
Islamism: The Revolutionary Tide—Two Philosophical Interpretations
The Arab Spring and the Syrian Cataclysm
The Palestinian Issue and International Order
Saudi Arabia
The Decline of the State?
CHAPTER 4: The United States and Iran: Approaches to Order
The Tradition of Iranian Statecraft
The Khomeini Revolution
Nuclear Proliferation and Iran
Vision and Reality
CHAPTER 5: The Multiplicity of Asia
Asia and Europe: Different Concepts of Balance of Power
Japan
India
What Is an Asian Regional Order?
CHAPTER 6: Toward an Asian Order: Confrontation or Partnership?
Asia’s International Order and China
China and World Order
A Longer Perspective
CHAPTER 7: “Acting for All Mankind”: The United States and Its Concept of Order
America on the World Stage
Theodore Roosevelt: America as a World Power
Woodrow Wilson: America as the World’s Conscience
Franklin Roosevelt and the New World Order
CHAPTER 8: The United States: Ambivalent Superpower
The Beginning of the Cold War
Strategies of a Cold War Order
The Korean War
Vietnam and the Breakdown of the National Consensus
Richard Nixon and International Order
The Beginning of Renewal
Ronald Reagan and the End of the Cold War
The Afghanistan and Iraq Wars
The Purpose and the Possible
CHAPTER 9: Technology, Equilibrium, and Human Consciousness
World Order in the Nuclear Age
The Challenge of Nuclear Proliferation
Cyber Technology and World Order
The Human Factor
Foreign Policy in the Digital Era
CONCLUSION: World Order in Our Time?
The Evolution of International Order
Where Do We Go from Here?
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
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