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This is an abstract of a book published by Dr Atique Ur Rehman on Amazon Kindle Book Reading
The post-1945 international order, constructed on the twin pillars of Westphalian state sovereignty and liberal institutionalism, is undergoing a structural collapse unprecedented in modern history. This paper argues that the root cause of virtually every contemporary global crisis — from the US-Iran confrontation to the Taiwan strait tension, from the Ukraine war to the Middle East conflagration — is not a failure of diplomacy or leadership, but a fundamental transition in the architecture of global power: the unmanaged and contested shift from American unipolarity to an emergent, institutionally ungoverned multipolarity.
Into this structural vacuum, new categories of actors — transnational corporations, non-state armed networks, international financial institutions, and most consequentially, artificial intelligence systems — have inserted themselves, fragmenting authority that states once monopolized. The paper further identifies the imminent arrival of quantum computing capability and AI-driven autonomous systems as forces that will not merely accelerate this disorder but transform its nature categorically, creating a condition of systemic illegibility in which events outpace comprehension, accountability dissolves, and the instruments of governance built for the 20th century become structurally inadequate for the 21st.
The paper concludes that the world faces not merely a turbulent transition but potentially an extended period of what may be termed banality of chaos — a permanent condition of distributed, ungoverned complexity — unless a new Concert of Powers can be negotiated with sufficient urgency. The window for such a settlement is narrow and closing.
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