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The world seems to have gone directly from a hegemonic US-led international system to an interregnum in global order. The traditional phase of multipolarity— or a restoration of the balance of power, or even a struggle among rival systems of order, has been skipped.
For centuries, the downfall of one global empire has resulted in the ascension of another. But as Jason Pack shows in his new book, LIBYA AND THE GLOBAL ENDURING DISORDER (Oxford University Press; February, 2022), we are no longer in the post-Cold War World, but are rather in a new era, one he terms “the Enduring Disorder.”
The world seems to have gone directly from a hegemonic US-led international system to an interregnum in global order. The traditional phase of multipolarity—or a restoration of the balance of power, or even a struggle among rival systems of order has been skipped.