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World|opinion & analysis|June 18, 2014 / 01:09 PM
Age of entropy: why new world order won't be orderly

AKIPRESS.COM - idea The Foreign Affairs' Randall L. Schweller published an article analyzing the concept of global hegemony in the new world order, asking the question whether the term still applies in our era or not.

He wrote, it increasingly seems that the world will no longer have a single superpower, or group of superpowers, that brings order to international politics. Instead, it will have a variety of powers -- including nations, multinational corporations, ideological movements, global crime and terror groups, and human rights organizations -- jockeying with each other, mostly unsuccessfully, to achieve their goals.

Here are the key excerpts from the analysis:

- International politics is transforming from a system anchored in predictable, and relatively constant, principles to a system that is, if not inherently unknowable, far more erratic, unsettled, and devoid of behavioral regularities.

- Power is already more diffuse than it ever has been.

- The digital revolution has allowed information to spread farther than ever before, empowering average citizens, celebrities, corporations, terrorists. The power these groups can exert, however, is unconventional. They have the power to disrupt, to stop things from happening, but they don’t have the power to enact their own agendas.

- Modern society suffers from collective attention deficit disorder.

- Having greater quantities of information at our fingertips has not produced greater wisdom.

- Disorder does not suppress all that is good in the world.

The whole article is available here.

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