NEW WORLD ORDER

NEW INTERNATIONAL SECURITY SYSTEM - solving the problems of world order described by Henry Kissinger

Introduction. The Question Kissinger Asked — but Could Not Resolve

Henry Kissinger’s book World Order is not merely a historical analysis of international relations. It is a diagnosis of a civilizational crisis articulated by one of the principal architects of twentieth-century geopolitics.

• the world has lost a unified normative order;
• states no longer share a common understanding of legitimacy;
• the balance of power no longer guarantees stability;
• international law is fragmented and instrumentalized;
• technology has outpaced political institutions.

Yet the defining feature of the book lies elsewhere: Kissinger does not propose a systemic exit. He describes the crisis of the Westphalian world order but remains within the same paradigm.

Does the New International Security System and the Digital Society offer what Kissinger’s concept lacks — a new ontology of world order?

I. World Order According to Kissinger

Kissinger regards the Westphalian system (1648) as the foundation of the modern world order, based on sovereignty, territoriality, balance of power, and diplomacy. Yet he admits it was never universal and reflected a European civilizational logic.

II. The Core Limitation of Kissinger’s Thinking

Despite the depth of analysis, Kissinger never questions state-centrism, territorial jurisdiction, or the monopoly of the state over security. The human being remains an object of policy rather than a subject of world order.

III. The New International Security System

Kissinger	NISS
State	Human + Polycentric Institutions
Territory	Digital Jurisdiction
State Sovereignty	Personal Sovereignty + State Sovereignty
Balance of Power	Balance of Values and Algorithms

This is a civilizational shift — not a reform.

 

IV. From a State-Based World Order to a Civilitary Order of Humanity

1. Civilitary Relations Instead of Geopolitics

Kissinger analyzes the world through:

• war;
• diplomacy;
• borders;
• alliances.

NISS introduces civilitary relations, where the foundational institutions are:

1. the Human Being;
2. Property (including digital property);
3. Eternal values: freedom, equality, justice.

This represents an ontological replacement of world-order logic.

V. The Problem Kissinger Recognized but Did Not Solve: Nuclear Annihilation

Kissinger explicitly states that:

• nuclear war may be accidental;
• technology has outpaced control mechanisms;
• leaders are unable to manage the consequences.

NISS responds by:

• removing the state monopoly over decisions of destruction;
• distributing security functions among polycentric institutions;
• implementing digital early-warning mechanisms;
• embedding algorithmic ethics as decision constraints.

 

VI. The Institutional Void of the 21st Century

Kissinger acknowledges that twentieth-century institutions cannot govern a twenty-first-century world.

NISS answers with:

• the creation of a Digital Institutional Platform (DIP);
• international legal personality for digital institutions;
• digital treaties;
• new forms of accountability.

 

VII. Why Kissinger Could Not Propose a Digital Solution

Objectively:

• his thinking was formed before the digital era;
• digital property did not exist;
• AI was not a political actor;
• the global network was not institutionalized.

NISS is an answer from a different epoch.

 

VIII. A World Without a Single Order → A World with a Polycentric Order

Kissinger fears the chaos of multipolarity.
NISS accepts polycentricity as the norm:

• multiple centers;
• unified value patterns;
• digital coordination instead of force-based domination.

 

IX. Law Versus Force: The Fundamental Break

Kissinger realistically recognizes that force dominates law.
NISS proposes:

• law as code;
• algorithmic enforcement of norms;
• automatic fulfillment of obligations;
• reduced reliance on coercion.

 

X. From Historical Compromise to Evolutionary Architecture

Kissinger thinks in terms of compromises between states.
NISS thinks in terms of:

• institutional evolution;
• noospheric logic;
• long-term stability.

 

XI. The Core Answer to World Order

Yes, the New International Security System resolves the problems Kissinger merely described, because it:

1. changes the subject of world order;
2. institutionalizes digital space;
3. eliminates the state monopoly on security;
4. offers an alternative to nuclear deterrence;
5. restores universal legitimacy through values.

 

XII. Kissinger as the Final Thinker of the Old Order

Historically, Kissinger is the final theorist of a state-centric world order.
NISS is the first project of a post-state security architecture.

XIII. Conclusion

World Order is a diagnosis without a prescription. The New International Security System and the Digital Society constitute a prescription without illusions, built upon the human being, digital property, polycentric institutions, ethical algorithms, and civilitary responsibility.

The twentieth-century world order has ended.
The civilitary world order is only beginning.