“Everyone who only cares about their slices of the world coordinates against those who want to seize control of the entire world” seems like it might be one of those stable equilibria.
Which is why, since the beginning of the nuclear age, the running theme of international relations is “a single nation embarked on multiple highly destructive wars of conquest, and continued along those lines until no nations that could threaten it remained”.
“Everyone who only cares about their slices of the world coordinates against those who want to seize control of the entire world” seems like it might be one of those stable equilibria.
Alas, the side that wants to win always beats the side that just wants to be left alone.
Which is why, since the beginning of the nuclear age, the running theme of international relations is “a single nation embarked on multiple highly destructive wars of conquest, and continued along those lines until no nations that could threaten it remained”.