Eurasian Security Studies, Department of Political Science
Journal of Peace and Research, vol 30, no 3. 1993, p. 241-250The New World Order threatens to degenerate into something
drearily familiar. It now looks just as prone to self-serving and
manipulated myth-preservation and myth-making, tribal ethnocentrism
and the politics of fear and exclusion as were older world orders.
If we cannot transcend the distorting bounds of our particular group
or national’ cultures, then visions of a more just and less conflict-prone
order will remain a mirage.
