Multi-polar is the word, its mathematical meaning is an invisible, steel skeletal/functional frame--a predestined soul--about which the geopolitical orbits and oscillates unconsciously.



Negotiation is, to define, the use of time, knowledge, and perceived (or used--i.e., war) power in a web of tension to achieve what you want to the extent possible. The bilateral negotiation of the flat world of times past was in a clear imbalance between parties, winner take all--literally, else in a near balance, a win-win would be negotiated by both parties. But even in the imbalance, times changed as people's services became more useful with technological development. FIrst as slaves to a master, so the loser got--at least--life and sustenance. Then as serfs to a nobleman, where they even had a little property. Then as paid workers to wealthy land owners and industrialists.



Then the world became round, service products, and skills were complex and obtained in equally complex manner with the growth of the information age. And here something new happened. Economic and military influence flowed out from the superpower uni-polar and bi-polar, to the multi-polar. Particularly, once you get three or more, a weak one can influence by playing another off a third in regions of balanced tensions between these, and draw further negotiating power to itself. The result is feed-forward into a "fractal basin," and deterministic chaos. The next stage--if we are to mimic the evolutionary successes of the natural world, is to work a decentralized power in round table formation--turning chaos into cross-communication/sense, and system control--bringing matters to homeostasis. If not, then this system remains chaotic in its general sense, and as far as we are concerned, the dominant principle is Murphy's law.



As such, we come to the ultimate evolution of negotiation--the balance of the needs of all parties in a win-win-win-... -- which translates into a WIN for the System Humanity. Then we will have really traded up from poverty--and it will be permanent because it will be self-regulating and not at the mercy of the foibles of petty, greedy old-school international ideological politics or the individual ego of a clever ruling class under any system capitalistic, socialistic, aristocratic, or theocratic.



What failures we are now seeing are in the oscillations, and successes we are seeing in the envelope, of the global function of approach to this final self-regulating state. This, assuming--let us hope--that the oscillation will eventually decay the envelope into a smooth curve, rather that the envelope exploding into chaos.

