DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18449528
title: The ICMDSA Compendium: Multi-Alignment Diplomacy with Strategic Autonomy — Covenant, Doctrine, Theory, and Implementation Framework

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The ICMDSA CompendiumMulti-Alignment Diplomacy with Strategic Autonomy — Covenant, Doctrine, Theory, and Implementation Framework

This deposit presents a unified six-document compendium advancing a comprehensive, original, and system-level framework on Multi-Alignment Diplomacy with Strategic Autonomy (MDSA). The collection is conceived as an authoritative reference for policymakers, legal advisers, scholars, and institutions engaged in contemporary statecraft within an increasingly multipolar and interdependent international system.

At its core is the International Covenant on Multi-Alignment Diplomacy with Strategic Autonomy (ICMDSA), which articulates the foundational principles, conceptual architecture, and treaty-grade framework of multi-alignment. The Covenant is grounded in sovereign equality, non-exclusivity of international engagement, strategic autonomy, and full conformity with international law. It establishes precise definitions, institutional arrangements, and structured mechanisms for implementation, monitoring, and periodic review.

The accompanying Executive Doctrine for Policymakers operationalizes the Covenant for senior decision-makers. It translates doctrinal principles into applied policy guidance, including coordination models, decision matrices, risk-management tools, and scenario-based applications relevant to diplomacy, security planning, economic engagement, technology governance, and sustainability policy.

The academic and theoretical volume situates civilizational diplomacy and multi-alignment within the field of International Relations. It engages critically with established theoretical traditions, distinguishes multi-alignment from twentieth-century non-alignment, and advances analytical frameworks and methodological pathways suitable for comparative research, scholarly debate, and peer-reviewed publication.

The Implementation Handbook and Legal Toolkit provides practical instruments for domestic and institutional application. These include model legislative texts, executive and administrative procedures, compliance and compatibility checklists, reporting indicators, opt-in mechanisms, and accession guidance. The toolkit is designed to be adaptable across diverse constitutional systems and institutional capacities while maintaining doctrinal coherence with the Covenant’s objectives.

Supplementary Annexes consolidate a standardized glossary of key concepts, detailed institutional structures and procedures, phased implementation roadmaps, harmonized State reporting templates, and formal instruments for accession, declarations, reservations, and withdrawal.

Taken together, this six-part compendium constitutes an integrated doctrinal, legal, policy, and scholarly architecture for States and institutions seeking to pursue diversified international engagement while safeguarding independent policy choice, institutional resilience, and responsible participation in the stewardship of shared global domains. The collection is positioned as a sovereign-grade reference framework capable of informing academic inquiry, executive governance, and lawful international cooperation without reliance on exclusive alignments.

Although deposited under Zenodo’s dataset category for archival and citation purposes, this collection constitutes an integrated doctrinal and legal reference corpus rather than an empirical dataset.

AuthorDr. B. Mazumdar, D.Sc. (Hon.), D.Litt. (Hon.)Architect of Modern StatehoodIndependent Researcher–Scholar: AI Governance, Cybersecurity, Post-Quantum Cryptography, Digital StatecraftFounder, FAIR+D CanonORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5615-3558

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18449528