The international order that emerged from the Cold War's end is not slowly fading — it is visibly fracturing, and the institutions built to sustain it were designed for a world that no longer exists. Power is redistributing faster than diplomacy can follow, and new forces — technological, ecological, and political — are reshaping the terrain of global life in ways no single framework was built to contain. The deeper question this moment poses is not whether transformation is underway, but whether humanity possesses the collective honesty and will to meet it with open eyes rather than inherited