What if the true limit of governance is not political will, but structural blindness? We build systems to manage complexity, yet they fracture under their own weight. The acceleration of technology, the asymmetry of time, and the cascading crises of global interdependence have rendered first-order control obsolete. Meta-Governance marks a conceptual rupture. It shifts the unit of analysis from individual institutions to the civilizational system itself. The answer is not more control, but the deliberate design of conditions that enable systems to self-stabilize. At its core lies SOGA—Second-Order Governance Architecture. This is a structural framework for designing systems that regulate systems, operating across structural, regulatory, evolutionary, temporal, and conditioning layers. It provides a blueprint for meta-decision. Alongside SOGA, this volume introduces PCF (Possibility Constraint Framework), GFGM (Global Feedback Governance Model), ICS (Invisible Control Systems), TGM (Temporal Governance Matrix), and CCA (Controlled Collapse Architecture). Together, they forge an operational vocabulary for civilizational engineering. Fernando Privat demonstrates that stability depends neither on force nor ideology, but on systemic coherence. Resilience is engineered. Power is technical, not merely political. Collapse, when unavoidable, must be architecturally managed rather than blindly resisted. This work confronts the governability gap, the saturation of control, and the limits of direct intervention. It proposes distributed governance and global cognitive feedback as the path forward—while acknowledging the humbling truth that even second-order systems cannot fully master the whole. They can, however, design the conditions for evolution without disintegration. Directed at global policymakers, institutional architects, corporate strategists, and long-term investors, this book offers a new lens: not merely to diagnose how civilizations survive or fail, but to deliberately shape their structural conditions for the twenty-first century. Meta-Governance does not belong to management, politics, or economics. It belongs to the engineering of second-order civilizational systems.