Respectful congratulations to Henry Kissinger on his 100th birthday today on May 27, 2023. (original) (raw)

Kissinger’s Word Order is an analytical summary of his thinking, and therefore its historical and philosophical examination is a natural way to offer congratulations and at the same time thank him for his kind response to it. It is painful to see how difficult it is to deal with political issues arising from cultural differences of different universalisms coming from hundreds of years of different developments around the globe. Democratic man and democracy are not a gift of nature but requires democratic people who have developed over a long period of civic history or "die Bildung". Henry Kissinger’s World Order provides a good perspective also on it. Henry Kissinger’s Diplomacy (1994) was more or less Euro-Atlantic centric, and his On China (2011) dealt with the other end of the Eurasian continent. His World Order covers the whole planet, combining its geopolitics with geohistory.