Henry Kissinger on the Assembly of a New World Order: The Concept That Has Underpinned the Modern Geopolitical Era Is in Crisis Hoover Institution

Libya is in civil war, fundamentalist armies are building a self-declared caliphate across Syria and Iraq and Afghanistan’s young democracy is on the verge of paralysis. To these troubles are added a resurgence of tensions with Russia and a relationship with China divided between pledges of cooperation and public recrimination. The concept of order that has underpinned the modern era is in crisis.