Kuala Lampur, Dec. 6 -- The world has entered a phase where instability is no longer an interruption of normality but the permanent architecture of global life.

Crises overlap, norms fracture, and systems strain under forces that refuse to behave predictably. We now live in post-normal time - where the old balance has collapsed but a new equilibrium has not emerged.

Seismic shocks that shaped the global system

To understand how we arrived here, we must revisit the earliest seismic shocks that shifted the global system.

One of the most defining moments came in 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik. It was a small metallic sphere emitting a faint radio beep, yet it sent strategic tremors across every major capital.

That single b...