A dozen book recommendations
Tag Archives: Foreign Affairs
Henry Kissinger’s World Order and the Question of Universal Values
On the tension among “universal” values, world order, and U.S. power
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Politics and Culture in International History
The concept of order that has underpinned the modern era is in crisis. The search for world order has long been defined almost exclusively by the concepts of Western societies … But vast regions of the world have never shared and only acquiesced in the Western concept of order … [The United States must think] …
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The Age of Entropy
…we are on the cusp of an eternal purgatory. It will be a world full of confusion and instability. The age of entropy will be a time of restless disorder, an aimless but forceful hostility to the status quo… How serendipitous. A week after posting Entropy: The Defining Characteristic of Global Affairs, I stumbled across an article …