Critique of the author (but also understanding) of not openly discussing the threats of China’s rise and not making clear analogies in Western appeasement politics with the current situation.

Critique of the author for not having understood to what extent the Chinese government already wields control of the internet the cyberspace will is a model for the Chinese government on how to deal with the international community in the real world: authoritarian, non-inclusive decision making will be the norm.

A successful interior policy comes first. A nation that shows a wrecked health system, poor and antiquated infrastructure as its main achievements lost credibility.

Critique of the author for shedding a all too positive light onto American foreign policy and portraying at times a neo-crusader-like picture of American values converting the barbarian world – Kissinger does not spend even one thought to the lost respect in regard to American values in Europe or China.

Critique that no effort is made to talk about other concepts of international order, which do not have the nation state as its smallest unit in the center of perspective, but e.g.

Others who have written about international order at such a level of proficiency: Francis Fukuyama, Samuel Huntington, John Mearsheimer.

Objective: generating more public consensus for international order? Leaving a testimony about his own work? Shedding a favorable light onto American foreign policy? Convincing the Western reader of a more realist view of international order without bashing directly China?.All text clippings in the review are printed in Italic.Written by Kissinger with a wide range of support like expert historians and research assistants.Conceived at a dinner between Kissinger and his old mate Charles Hill, when they concluded that the crisis in the concept of world order was the ultimate international problem of our day.Published by Penguin in May 2014 last research data that author refers to also May 2014.Henry Kissinger – World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History

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