The expectation that the end of the Cold War and the tide of mega-trend transformation of globalization would bring about post-Westphalian transition has gradually faded away. Some observers believed that a global governance in security architecture would form with the relative weakening of state power. Others predicted that the USA would create a genuine empire possessing unprecedented power as a single unit in human history, creating truly liberal institutions and providing global goods. However, the triple crisis that haunted the USA after 9–11, that is security, economic, and ideological problems impaired the US ability to produce global imperial power. Now the phenomenon of “return of geopolitics” is witnessed in many regions, and traditional realist great power rivalry seems to dominate the international order.