Choosing the Right Policy in a World of Infinite Disorder
Specialized advisory services on questions of intellectual, political and cultural development
Welcome
The Center for Modernity Planning and Assessment is a small, for-profit organization founded by Salim Maloof to present his intellectual work, invite examination of it, and offer specialized advisory, teaching, and training services to the heirs of the old powers—that is, the families and dynasties that emerged as the principal victors of the Second World War—as well as to heads of state and their senior civil, political, or military advisers.
This website presents the Mathematical Construct of the Global Human Security Problem, which Salim Maloof developed between 2002 and 2005, together with his subsequent books, short books, papers, articles, and proposals. Visitors, scholars, mathematicians, philosophers, and other investigators are invited to examine and judge the theory, its mathematical structure, its reasoning, and the questions that remain unresolved.
The website also presents the broader intellectual framework within which this work developed, including questions concerning modernity, governance, human behavior, international order, peace, human security, and the long-term consequences of political, economic, and social decisions.
Another aim of the website is to provide prospective clients with access to Salim Maloof’s writings and information about his academic background, together with more than three decades of professional experience liaising with governments, bilateral and multilateral donors, international financial institutions, and organizations within the United Nations system. The purpose is to provide prospective clients with the evidence they need to judge whether the specialized boutique services offered by the Center are credible and suited to their needs.
CenterMPA vs Conventional Approaches
The illustrations below summarize the distinction CenterMPA draws between different approaches to organizing political and social relations at the national and international levels.
CenterMPA
Supporting Heads of State in creating more “relaxed”
and orderly political and social relations
Result: A more “linear” order among people within the national system
Conventional approaches
Supporting Heads of State in managing more “tense” political and social relations
Result since 1945: A more “complex” order among people within the national system
Result: Governments organized with a “simpler” international order
Result: Governments operating “in parallel” within the international order
CenterMPA: Supporting the rich to form better judgment
The Center for Modernity Planning and Assessment holds that the profound political, social, and economic disorder that has developed in the world since 1945 requires serious examination. In Salim Maloof’s analysis, the heirs of the old powers—the families and dynasties that emerged as the principal victors of the Second World War—have sought to preserve and rejuvenate their position through political and economic solutions that departed from the principles and arrangements their predecessors developed in response to earlier periods of global conflict.
The victors of the Second World War could not have proposed that the United Nations, other international institutions, and additional legal entities become economic operators alongside governments, offering economic, political, and social services, because such an expansion could lead the world toward a total failure of governance, as the constant wars that have swept the world since 1945 could be interpreted to suggest.
In Salim Maloof’s view, deviating from the work program suggested by the victors of the Second World War in the United Nations Charter does not build the international rules-based postwar order they proposed. Instead, it creates additional layers through which questions of governance, authority, and the relationship between the rich and the poor, or the strong and the weak, increasingly crisscross, contributing to deeper instability.
History repeatedly shows that those who inherit power may believe themselves capable of departing from the experience and judgment of their predecessors without consequence. Yet decisions that appear advantageous in the short term may produce conditions that weaken the very power, stability, and order they were intended to preserve.
The Center does not ask the rich, its readers, or prospective clients to accept the political and economic arguments it presents without examination. It invites them to study the underlying arguments, the 2005 Mathematical Construct of the Global Human Security Problem, and the subsequent writings that seek to apply and develop the questions raised by that work.
For this reason, the Center also seeks support from those who believe that these questions warrant sustained and independent examination. Its longer-term objective is to develop the Center as a forum for thoughtful debate and principled dialogue on modernity and international affairs, and to undertake work intended to help preserve the rich and the institutions on which they depend to maintain their dominant role.
For this purpose, the Center invites those with substantial resources who wish to support this objective to consider making a major contribution. The proposed minimum level of support is $10 million, reflecting the scale of the work that the Center eventually seeks to undertake and the seriousness of the problems it proposes to examine.