Well before the events of 9/11 supposedly changed everything, the world was already changing. The world that was changing specifically was the Westphalian one of 1812. It was the world of Klemens Von Metternich. It was the world of the sovereign nation-state with clearly defined borders that could be closed and policed to maintain the integrity and security of a regime within fixed geographic borders. It was a world that was static, fixated on clearly defined concept of space. It was also a world that was fixed in time. It endured from 1812 through the Cold War. It was the world of international relations theory that discussed politics in terms of realism and rational actor models. It was a world that also defined international law from the perspective of rules and norms that were centered on what nationstates could or could not do.