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After the Reckoning: War, Power, and the Remaking of World Order
Paperback
Series: The Global Reckoning, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 2 2026
Pages: 380
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
After the Reckoning reads like a geopolitical thriller-but every page is grounded in the unfolding reality of our time.
When coordinated airstrikes on Iran trigger a 40-day crisis that spirals across continents, what begins as a regional conflict rapidly becomes a systemic rupture. Oil routes choke. Alliances fracture. Markets convulse. Decisions made in minutes reverberate across households thousands of miles away. In real time, the world witnesses something far more consequential than war: the collapse of a global order that had been taken for granted for decades.
Christopher Selvarajah takes the reader inside this moment-not as distant analysis, but as lived experience. From the narrow waters of the Strait of Hormuz, through the tense negotiations in Islamabad, to the shockwaves felt in factories, farms, and family budgets, the narrative unfolds with urgency and precision. Military power falters in constrained geography. Economic interdependence, once seen as a stabilising force, becomes a weapon. Diplomacy unravels as legitimacy dissolves.
This is not a story of a single battle or a single nation. It is a story of a system under strain.
The book reveals how a confident unipolar world-built on the assumption that power, markets, and institutions could manage global stability-collided with a new reality: a multipolar system where leverage is distributed, alliances are fluid, and no actor can fully control outcomes. In this world, even the most powerful states must navigate constraints imposed by geography, interdependence, and the independent choices of others.
With the pace of a thriller and the insight of a seasoned scholar, After the Reckoning traces the cascading consequences of miscalculation: the economic boomerang that returns home, the fragmentation of alliances, the rise of middle powers acting independently, and the quiet emergence of a new global architecture built not on dominance, but on negotiation, resilience, and survival.
This is a structural autopsy of the old order-and a map of what comes next.
For readers of geopolitics, international business, and global strategy, this book offers more than analysis. It offers clarity in a moment when the world no longer behaves as expected. It challenges the comforting assumptions of the past and replaces them with a harder truth: interdependence does not guarantee peace. It defines the terrain on which conflict now unfolds.
After the Reckoning is not just about what happened.
It is about what has changed-and why the world will not return to what it was.
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