The last section of the book-in which Kissinger reflects on the impact of modern communications, the Internet and social media, on the notion of state sovereignty, human privacy, and societies’ cohesion-revolves around his unshakeable belief that the world needs an order through which states interact with one another. The objective of the journey is not to prove that one “order” is superior to another, but to argue that “an order” is needed for the world to avert a descent into chaos. He presents as a series of “reflections” in World Order a journey from the moment that the world’s powers agreed on “an order” to organize international relations-the signing of the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 at the end of the Thirty Years War-through to our current day. Henry Kissinger divides the world geographically, but analyzes it through a cultural lens.
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