The Myth Of Global Chaos

An Article Summary of Yahya Sadowski

With the end of cold war in 1989, American was like a baby tasting its first mouthful of peanut butter: both delighted and confused. They could neither understand how it had happened so quickly nor figure out how to adjust to a new world without the ‘red menace’.

Initially the optimism of American society prevailed, where the first vision of life after the Cold War was articulated by Francis Fukuyama in his famous article ‘The end of History’. In which he states that the Soviet Union had been defeated not by the force or arm but by the universal allure of American values. And now it shows that the whole world was scrambling to emulate the democratic capitalism epitomized by the United States.

The Coming Anarchy

By: Robert Kaplan

The Coming Anarchy; how scarcity, crime, overpopulation, tribalism and disease are rapidly destroying the social fabric of our planet.

This article was writen by journalist Robert D. Kaplan in 1994 and it is considered to be one of the fundamental theses on the state of the current world affairs in the Post-Cold War Era and is often ranked on the same level of doctrinal importance as Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilization and Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man theses.

Many believed that the post-Cold War would bring about a new era of peace in world affairs. The new struggles were no longer neatly ideological, but cultural and historical. New tensions such as population increases, urbanization, and resource depletion are undermining fragile governments across the developing world.

The Next Pattern of Conflict; The Clash of Civilization

The article was review of Samuel. P. Huntington's thesis The Clash of Civilization, where the thesis outlines a future where the "great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural" and not primarily on the basis of ideology or economic. And the clash of civilization will dominate global politics.

Conflict between civilizations will be the latest phase in the evolution of conflict in the modern world. Prior to the Treaty of Wesphalia the global conflict were mainly between emperor, absolute monarch that attempting to expand their bureaucracies, armies, economic and above all their territory, until the emergence of France Revolution, trend of conflict slightly shifted into conflict between nations rather than princes, until it was the culminating on First World War ended into ideological conflict, first among communism, fascism-Nazism and liberal democracy and then communism and liberal democracy during the so called Cold War era.

World Politics as Primitive Political System

In this article Roger D. Master use a set of comparison to explore the structure and functioning of the international system.

He started with an argument why it is important to compare international politics with primitive political system. Depart from this argument he further give three important reasons which, firstly, as an attempt to bridge the gap between political science and anthropology, since the political aspects of primitive society have often been imperfectly analyzed. Secondly, in the history of political philosophy, the idea of ‘state of nature’ play important role in shaping the political system, although political anthropologist regard the notion of ‘state of nature’ never existed. Thirdly, the concept of diplomacy in primitive society would have to comprehend the rivalry and warfare in the primitive society.

II. Similarities between Primitive and International Politics: