The Constitutional Order Institute emerged from a long-standing concern with the way states are studied, designed, and held accountable. Its founder, Ahsan Chaudhary began wrestling with these questions nearly two decades ago while studying and teaching law in Pakistan. Specifically, he was unsettled by how conventional political science treated the state as a monolithic actor with interests rather than as a composite of institutions shaped by law, accountability and legitimacy. 

His dissatisfaction grew during graduate studies in the United States where he observed that academic and policy debates often reduced war to a political theater ignoring institutional breakdown at its root. Over time, he developed an alternative framework what he would later call “the Medical Approach to Peace” treating the state as an organism, law as medicine, and institutions as organs determining the conditions for peace and war. This perspective asks not merely what politics does, but how institutions are designed: whether are they accountable? And whether do they deliver public goods justly and sustainably?

Appeared as a space to pursue these questions rigorously and practically, the Constitutional Order Institute is envisioned to act not simply as a think tank, but as a global watchdog tasked with monitoring the health of legislative bodies, political parties, and holding designers of institutions and laws to account.