World Order

Drawing on a lifetime of diplomacy, Henry Kissinger examines the idea of world order across history, from the balance-of-power system born at Westphalia to the very different visions held in China, the Islamic world, and America. He argues that no truly global order has ever existed, only competing regional conceptions now colliding in an interconnected age. Part history, part warning, it asks whether the nations of the world can build a shared system. Mark Zuckerberg chose it for A Year of Books.