I think you're overdue on noticing that by about 70 years: the postwar international order, UN, Bretton Woods, WTO, NATO etc.

It's not even necessarily a bad thing, provided that it's free, democratic and transparent. Mass surveillance is none of those things and does not belong in the international order.

It would be great to do away with hegemons, but in a world of multiple would-be "great powers" you end up having to pick one to be protected by from the others.