In this article, Yuen Yuen Ang argues that 2025 marks not just the end of the postwar global order but the emergence of a new one. She examines the collapse of a system built on US-led geopolitical stability, industrial progress, and globalization, highlighting internal contradictions such as concentrated authority, widening inequality, environmental degradation, and political disillusionment. Rather than viewing the present moment as a “polycrisis,” Ang refers to the concept of “polytunity” — a generational opportunity for systemic transformation led from the margins. She identifies multipolarity, reconfigured globalization, and the disruptive potential of artificial intelligence as emerging contours of a new order, and calls for an adaptive, inclusive, and moral mindset to shape a more plural, equitable, and ecologically grounded future.
