The World is designed to provide readers of any age and experience with the essential background needed to answer important critical questions about the world we live in, empowering them to manage the flood of daily news. Readers will become more informed, better able to arrive at sound, independent judgments and to hold elected representatives to account. In short, this book will make readers more globally literate. Explaining complex ideas with wisdom and clarity, Richard Haass''s The World is an evergreen book that will remain relevant and useful even as history continues to unfold.