A world order formed after 1945. After the blood and ruins of the Last Imperial War (1931-45), nations, superpowers and international organisations governed the world.
This world order was the first in the history of the multipolar world. All previous claims to world dominion by powers controlling the Middle Kingdom, Rome, Christendom, the Mongol Ulus, Habsburg Spain, the Treaty of Westphalia, the Concert of Europe, Pax Brittanica, and even the malformed League of Nations were partial orders of limited reach.
The post-1945 world order, by contrast, included all the regions and states of the world, with one great exception until 1971, on the insistence of the USA, the People’s Republic of China.
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