The Age of Permanent Crisis Climate Change Artificial Intelligence and the Breakdown of Global Stability (2025–2075) (2025–2055: The New World Order – ... Power, Conflict, and the Future of Nations)

The world has entered an era in which crisis is no longer an interruption to normal life but the defining condition of global existence. The assumption that societies move from disruption back to stability, from shock to recovery, and from crisis to equilibrium no longer holds. Instead, humanity is now living inside overlapping, continuous, and mutually reinforcing crises that reshape politics, economies, technology, security, and human psychology itself.The Age of Permanent Crisis is a comprehensive and deeply analytical examination of this transformation. Spanning the period from 2025 to 2075, the book explains why global stability is breaking down and why neither technological progress nor economic growth alone can restore the predictability that defined much of the twentieth century. Climate change, artificial intelligence, digital surveillance, automation, cyber warfare, and institutional exhaustion are not isolated challenges; they are interconnected forces producing a new global condition in which instability becomes permanent rather than temporary.This book argues that the world is no longer experiencing a series of crises, but rather has entered a crisis-based system. Climate stress destabilizes economies and societies, artificial intelligence restructures power and labor, and governance systems built for a slower, more predictable world struggle to cope with constant shocks. Together, these forces generate a feedback loop of disruption that undermines traditional models of growth, employment, democracy, and international cooperation.A World Beyond RecoveryFor decades, policymakers, economists, and international institutions operated on the assumption that crises were temporary deviations from a stable norm. Financial crashes, wars, pandemics, and political upheavals were treated as events to be managed until normal conditions returned. This book challenges that assumption at its core.Chapter 1 establishes the central thesis: the idea of “post-crisis recovery” is increasingly a myth. Instead of returning to equilibrium, societies move from one shock to the next, with each crisis weakening institutional capacity and public trust. Twentieth-century governance models—designed for predictable economic cycles, stable demographics, and clear geopolitical hierarchies—are proving inadequate in a world defined by rapid technological change and environmental limits.Climate Change as a Force of Power and ConflictClimate change is often framed as an environmental problem, but this book demonstrates that it is fundamentally a geopolitical and economic force. Rising temperatures, extreme weather, water scarcity, and food insecurity weaken state capacity, intensify inequality, and increase the likelihood of conflict.Chapters 2 and 3 examine how climate stress reshapes migration patterns, border politics, and international rivalry. Climate-driven displacement places enormous pressure on states already struggling with economic stagnation and political polarization. Competition over water, food, energy, and critical minerals increasingly defines international relations. The book shows how climate change transforms scarcity into power, turning resources into strategic assets and survival into a geopolitical calculation.Artificial Intelligence as Infrastructure of PowerArtificial intelligence is not merely a technological innovation; it is becoming a foundational infrastructure of modern power. Chapter 4 argues that AI reshapes geopolitics in the same way that industrialization reshaped the nineteenth century and nuclear weapons reshaped the twentieth.Control over data, algorithms, computing power, and digital platforms increasingly determines economic dominance, military advantage, and political influence. Read more