The articles and speeches Dr. Kissinger has selected for inclusion in this volume reveal his main concerns for the past two years in the field of foreign relations. A dominant theme of this wide-ranging book is the challenge the United States and the industrial democracies will face in the 1980s; the need to revitalize NATO; arms control: East-West relation; world trade and the world economy. the book also contains Dr. Kissinger's observations on the Middle East and on China, and the text of the report he made to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as Chairman of the Bipartisan Commission on Central America.