The Mafiocratic World Order

In 2018, an American president said of North Koreas dictator, "We fell in love." After the 2020 election, he asked Georgias secretary of state to "find 11,780 votes." The two scenes belong to the same worldview: power flows not through rules and institutions, but through relationships between strongmen who deliver for one another. Abroad, Trump has been a narrator. At home, he has been an operator,. In The Mafiocratic World Order, James Strohman demonstrates how the liberal world order has been giving way to a patrons order, abroad by drift and at home by design-and argues it cannot be restored, only rebuilt. He describes How the patrons logic comes home. It reaches every place where American power is checked: the statehouse, the Justice Department, Congress, the courts, the classroom, the press, and the ballot count. Why AI is the new uranium. Like the fuel of the nuclear age, it is a strategic resource that confers power. Whoever controls it will set the terms of the next order. The rise of the corporate tech states. A handful of companies now wield power rivaling governments. They must be brought under democratic control before they are captured by, or become, the next patron. What rebuilding will take. The answer isnt nostalgia for the old order but a blueprint for a new one, with goals that can be measured.