ABSTRACT
The World Order Models Project (WOMP) has been the main result. WOMP's approach was directed at an academic audience, perhaps extended to include those men and women of public affairs concerned about the dangers of the existing world order system. The state system has managed, so far, to confound pessimistic expectations of a general nuclear war on the heels of World War II. Since the collapse of the colonial system in the 1950s and 1960s, the state system has expanded greatly in geographical and cultural scope. All parts of the world have independent states active in global issues. Statehood is a positive achievement, and the main task of the leadership is to consolidate this achievement, keeping the society truly independent in the face of a variety of pressures. System change means a fundamental rearrangement of structure so that a different configuration of actors with different orientations toward power, security, well-being and governance will emerge.
