The Myth of Global Chaos
When the Cold War ended in 1989, American hopes for a new world order were quickly disappointed. A new wave of violence soon erupted, engulfing places from Rwanda and Somalia to Chechnya and Bosnia. These new ""clashes of civilizations,"" fundamentalist jihads, and ethnic massacres appeared to be more savage and less rational than the long twilight struggle with the USSR, during which Washington's adversary was clearly identified and relatively predictable. In an effort to understand these post-Cold War conflicts and to advise the government on how to deal with them, a new school of foreign po
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Cover
Contents
1. Triumph and Despair
2. Popularizing Chaos
3. Anomie and Social Violence
4. Globalization and Culture Conflict
The Democracy Trap
Cultural Anomie
The Economics of Political Chaos
5. The Varieties of Global Chaos Theory
The West against the Rest
Civilization versus Chaos
6. The Policy Implications of Global Chaos
7. The Age of Fratricide
Long-Term Changes in the Pattern of Warfare
What Makes a Conflict Ethnic?
8. Globaloney
The Globalization of Culture
The Global Wave of Democratization
Economic Globalization 9. Post-Cold War Patterns of Conflict
Do Culture Wars Breed in Anomie Societies?
Are Culture Wars Unusually Savage?
Are Culture Conflicts Becoming More Frequent?
10. The Mythology of Ethnic Conflict
The 'Moynihan Thesis'
Was War in Bosnia the Result of 'Ancient Tribal Rivalries'?
State Collapse: Cause or Consequence?
The Varieties of State Collapse
Conclusion
11. From Chaos to Complexity
Structural Lessons
Assessing the Risk of State Collapse
'Structural Adjustment' without State Collapse
Global Complexity
12. Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
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