d's remaining superpower, the U.S. must maintain its dominant role in the world. His foremost concern is American interests abroad, but he is perceptive enough to realize that the United States should not act without listening to and responding to concerns of other countries in international matters.
In Chapter 1, Kissinger presents an overview of the changing nature of the international environment, and how American preeminence should be handled. Kissinger states his main thesis that, "At the apogee of its power, the United States finds itself in an ironic position. In the face of perhaps the most profound and wide-spread upheavals the w
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