When you start to think of Democracy, Economics, Communism etc. as technologies, the answer is pretty clear IMHO: you need to develop a new "government technology". The EU and the UN could be the beginning of an new form of political organisations (the technology of "supra-nationalism") which then evolves into something new again. It's not like the applicable theories "soft sciences" produces are that much different from the ones produced by "hard sciences".

"If you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles." Sun Tzu