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Henry Kissinger WORLD ORDER Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History Contents INTRODUCTION: The Question of World Order Varieties of World Order Legitimacy and Power CHAPTER 1: Europe: The Pluralistic International Order The Uniqueness of the European Order The Thirty Years’ War: What Is Legitimacy? The Peace of Westphalia The Operation of the Westphalian System The French Revolution and Its Aftermath CHAPTER 2: The European Balance-of-Power System and Its End The Russian Enigma The Congress of Vienna The Premises of International Order Metternich and Bismarck The Dilemmas of the Balance of Power Legitimacy and Power Between the World Wars The Postwar European Order The Future of Europe CHAPTER 3: Islamism and the Middle East: A World in Disorder The Islamic World Order The Ottoman Empire: The Sick Man of Europe The Westphalian System and the Islamic World Islamism: The Revolutionary Tide—Two Philosophical Interpretations The Arab Spring and the Syrian Cataclysm The Palestinian Issue and International Order Saudi Arabia The Decline of the State? CHAPTER 4: The United States and Iran: A......