In 1974, Trilateral Commission member and academic Richard Gardner wrote an article "The Hard Road to World Order" for Foreign Affairs magazine, predicting the future of the Commission's self-proclaimed New International Economic Order. Gardner spoke of an "end-run around national sovereignty," a "booming, buzzing confusion" and building it from the "bottom up" rather than attempting an "old-fashioned frontal assault." After almost 45 years, it is...