New World Order: Myth or Reality?

The world is transforming. Anthropologists claim that the amount of changes that the world has witnessed in the past one hundred years far more in number and significance than it has seen in the several centuries that have preceded. There is a bombardment of information as never seen before. There are subcultures that now exist that have been previously unknown to sociologists. There are technological revolutions that have changed the nature of human interaction, growth and development. There are political triggers and catalysts that have been unforeseen by political theorists. The societies that exist today are functioning on completely different coordinates than they were before.

In this changing landscape come forth various theories and perspectives that seek to explain the confusing and effervescent nature of political change and revolutions that have been making their way into our lives, especially in the past hundred years or so. As super powers make and break smaller countries, leagues of nations decide the future of millions, committees per committees are formed in order to form and reform, wars are fought for capital interests and commodities supersede human lives, those of us who watch blood pour on our televisions try to make sense of the chaos. Who are the key players in this global stage? Whether it is to view the power of technology that made its way to the world via Europe (namely the World Wide Web that was born in Scern, Germany) or an attempt to grasp the idea of the massive naked capitalism and a simultaneous spirit of entrepreneurship created by the United States of America that based financial institutions across the globe, theorists have tried to understand social, geographical, political and economical roo...

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... it takes them decades to recover. Once countries are steeped in war for decades, it takes them centuries to stand back on their feet. The people of Syria and Egypt have taken to the roads, knowing that their cause is noble, but as Mahatma Gandhi said, “What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”

It is well known that all politics is power politics. What occurs in Syria and Egypt, crippling their economies and crumbling their infrastructure, is a struggle for power by those who have found their way into fooling the masses that causes are noble. There is no nobler cause than peace yet there are wars in the name of peace. It is akin to the idea of war against terrorism – how simply politicians forget that war is terrorism.