Pakistan, Jan. 26 -- Since the international system is evolving rapidly, its age-old term, International Relations (IR), should also have a new name: International Revenge (IR). Let me explain before the IR theorists and practitioners declare me a proponent of the sub-discipline of strategic studies.

IR, in theory and practice, are considered essential among societies much before states became the unitary units of the international system. The relations between communities and societies formed the basis of the IR since time immemorial. However, the present international order, which is chaotic and anarchic, is failing to act as a bridge between states, and the race for resources is creating more divisions than among states that were once...