'The World Order'- a buzz term these days- is a dynamic model of power-

sharing between states of the world with no fixed form. In fact, change is the
only characteristic which can be perfectly attributed to it. There have been
various models of the World Order: uni-, bi- and multi-polar. These models do
not make up the world order in isolation; instead, some international theories
have always been associated with them, such as Liberalism, Communism, etc.
At the end of WW1 through WW2, Fascism had its day in the sun. Feeling
threatened to its rise, communist USSR and liberal USA allied against it to do
away with its spectre for good. But when that objective was accomplished
after the defeat of Axis power, a sort of never-ending, bitter rivalry started to
take place between the USSR and the USA. Now the world was left with two
completely opposite and mutually exclusive set of theories. The drums of cold
war had already beaten. In this period, the world witnessed some of the most
barbaric and devastating wars, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers and
civilians participating, and almost as many victims. The battleground was,
however, chosen to be developing and under-developed countries. For that
reason particularly, the traces of the Cold war can still be felt in those
countries; they have not yet recovered from its knock-on effects. At long last,
the liberal world order emerged triumphant, and the tug-of-war between the
USA and the USSR led to the disintegration of the latter in 1991. The
competing set of theories, which had reduced to two after the decline of the
fascism, was now containing just one theory: the liberal theory. Many
renowned political scientists around the world such as Francis Fukuyama
talked about 'the end of the history'. Liberals started to sell their theory to the
third world countries as the only perfect model to live by. Liberalism had
become sort of the last resort for rest of the world. This mindset was in part
responsible for pushing the USA to fight unreasonable wars abroad to sell its
supposedly perfect liberal order. The democratic form of government- the
poster child of the liberal order- was forcibly applied wherever they found
resistance. The forced regime change was the order of the day. Iraq war is a
good example in this regards, when baseless evidences regarding WMDs were
used as a pretext to invade the erstwhile ally against Iran. Afghanistan came
next, where former friends 'Mujahideen' were stabbed in the back. Arab
uprisings, so-called 'Arab Spring', speaks for itself. Country after country fell to
stand against the sole superpower bent upon installing democracy worldwide.
Along with democracy, globalization and free trade were two other things on
their agenda. Though free trade carries innumerable benefits for every country
involved in the transaction, the intended beneficiary, in the perspective of its
architects, was to be the USA, and alongside it its European allies. This model
let the western world dominate for quite some time economic and military
spheres, and enjoy unprecedented degree of power in dealing with world
affairs. But it was not until the rise of China and former superpower Russia that
the USA started to lag behind on its own designed world order. Once the
champion of the globalization, the USA is now looking for protectionist
practices as the ultimate saviour against China and Russia. Thanks to free
trade, US markets are teeming with Chinese goods. This has in turn adversely
affected indigenous US industries and generated backlash from its worker
class, whose jobs have been lost in this competition. US citizens have grown
more averse to free trade than at any time in their past. As a result, 2016
elections saw Donald Trump victorious, who came to rescue the USA from its
own dug hole. Trump's success is more a symptom than cause of growing
distaste towards globalization. Just in some time after coming to the power,
Trump picked a trade war with China, upended Trans-Pacific Partnership(TTP),
and slapped tariffs on his own allies. Liberalism, like its predecessors, is on
decline, and nowhere is it more evident than in the USA. Today, it is clear that
liberalism is not a ‘utopian’ theory describing a dream world of peace and
happiness as it was once accused of being. It, therefore, goes without saying
that in some time we may find ourselves in a world with no theory at all.