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100			_aKissinger, Henry
245			_aWorld Order _b: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History _c/ Henry Kissinger
260			_aLondon _b: Penguin _c, 2014.
300			_a420 p. _c: 6.34 x 1.5 x 9.37 inches.
520			_aThere has never been a true “world order,” Kissinger observes. For most of history, civilizations defined their own concepts of order. Each considered itself the center of the world and envisioned its distinct principles as universally relevant. China conceived of a global cultural hierarchy with the emperor at its pinnacle. In Europe, Rome imagined itself surrounded by barbarians; when Rome fragmented, European peoples refined a concept of an equilibrium of sovereign states and sought to export it across the world. Islam, in its early centuries, considered itself the world’s sole legitimate political unit, destined to expand indefinitely until the world was brought into harmony by religious principles. The United States was born of a conviction about the universal applicability of democracy—a conviction that has guided its policies ever since.
650			_aIntergovernmental Organizations Policy
650			_aInternational Diplomacy
650			_aDemocracy.
700			_aHenry Kissinger.
942			_cVC OFFICE
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