"First published in the United States of America by Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2017"--Title page verso.

"Published with a new afterword in Penguin Books 2018"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From War Through World War -- Cold War -- The Other Order -- The Post-Cold War World -- A Global Gap -- Regional Realities -- Pieces of Process -- What Is to Be Done? -- Thwarting Thucydides -- World Order 2.0 -- Regional Responses -- A Country in Disarray -- Afterword to the paperback edition.

"The past twenty-five years have seen a surprising unraveling of order: The rules, policies, and instructions that have guided us since World War II have largely run their course. Richard Haass argues that the world needs an updated operating system-- call it world order 2.0-- that takes into account the need for a new American foreign policy in a changing twenty-first century. As Haass shows us, the world cannot have stability or prosperity without the United States, but the United STates cannot be a force for these without its politicians and citizens reaching a new understanding"--from back cover.