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Global Anarchy: Who is to Blame and Who should fix things?

By V. Antwi-Danso

In February 1994, a lengthy cover story in The Atlantic Monthly, "The Coming Anarchy:How carcity, Crime, !veroulation, Tribalism, an# $isease are %ai#ly $estroying theocial Fabric o& !ur 'lanet",1%obert $( )alan argue# that the combination o& resource#eletion *li+e water, #emograhic youth bulges an# the roli&eration o& shanty townsthroughout the #eveloing worl# woul# en&lame ethnic an# sectarian #ivi#es, creating thecon#itions &or #omestic olitical brea+#own an# the trans&ormation o& war into increasinglyirregular &orms, ma+ing it o&ten in#istinguishable &rom terrorism( He also emhasi-e# theerosion o& national bor#ers an# the rise o& the environment as the rincial security issues o&the .1st century( !& great concern was his re#iction on the collase o& certain A&rican statesin the late 199/s an# the rise o& olitical Islam in Tur+eyan# other laces, all o& which cameto ass( Islam, he wrote, 0was a religion i#eally suite# &or the ba#ly urbani-e# oor who were

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An# this too has come to ass as Islamic &un#amentalism has become thereal bogey &or the whole worl#, esecially since the Al ae#a attac+s on the 2nite# tates o&America, etember 11, .//1( In#ee#, in 1993 amuel Huntington also ha# re#icte# a0Clash o& Civili-ations,5where the en# o& the Col# 6ar an# the #emise o& communismwoul# turn the 7ast86est con&rontation into a #ouble clash: a orth8outh clash *the oorouth versus the rich orth an# the Islamic socio8olitical culture against the u#eo8Christian 6estern culture( In both instances, the trigger woul# be the &alse believe in the 07n#o& History a#vocate# by Francis Fu+uyama( Following the #emise o& communism an# theen# o& the Col# 6ar, Fu+uyama ha# written: ;6hat we may be witnessing is not only the en#o& the Col# 6ar, or the assing o& a articular erio# o& ost8war history, but the en# o&history as such: that is, the en# oint o& man+in#s i#eological evolution and the

universalization of Western liberal democracy as the &inal &orm o& human government(ethic woul# stan# con#emne# by socio8historical an# culturalrelativities( An# so the 6ests attemt to universali-e the rinciles o& #emocracy as 0the &inal&orm o& human government,?in the hoe that eace an# stability woul# revail in the worl#,has been shown to be in mar+e# o&&ensive contrast with other civili-ations, notably theIslamic culture an# way o& li&e( $emocracy is a rocess, not an event an# as such cannot bee@orte# in coo+e# &orm( It is evolutionary an# sel&=correcting, ta+ing into account socio8historical, cultural, an# economic realities(

The current global anarchy where there is unrece#ente# rise in the activities o& sub8nationalgrous an# where intra8state stri&e has claime# the lives o& millions o& innocent eole hasmuch to #o with this insii# #esire to universali-e 6estern systems o& governance( In#ee#,

1See the Atlantic Monthly, February 1994

2Ibid.

3Huntington, Samuel, (199!, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World

Order, "e# $or%& Simon ' Schuter.

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Fu%uyama, Franci, )he *nd o+ Hitory The National Interest, Summer 19-9. .1-

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the so8calle# ush $octrine inclu#e# a #esire to ensure #emocracy in the Bi##le 7astthrough Ira( The invasion o& Ira rogresse# &rom a search &or weaons o& mass #estruction*6B$ to regime change( ince the mur#er o& a##am Hussein, Ira has har#ly incete# astable government( %ather, the hiite8unni #ivi#e, a constant variable in Bi##le 7astinstability, has e@acerbate#( A grou calling itsel& the Islamic tate o& Ira an# the Devant

*IID is virtually in control o& Ira an# threatening to create an Islamic state stretching &romIra to Debanon( The so8calle# Arab ring was toute# by the 6estern Be#ia as asringboar# to usher in #emocracy in the Arab worl#( The chaos, romte# by #isgruntle#elements *labelle# then as 0ro8#emocracy &orces, was the sign that #emocracy was+noc+ing at the #oors in the Bi##le 7ast an# orth A&rica( The 6est, le# by the 2, oenlysuorte# the rebels( Beetings were hel# in Don#on, where the 2 an# her allies romise#assistance, inclu#ing weaons an# intelligence( In#ee#, with Dibya an# yrian rebels, 2ecretary o& state, ohn )erry, oenly romise# monetary assistance *E1//mln to the latter, inthe hoe that the Assa# regime woul# &all within #ays an# 0#emocracy woul# #ro &romheaven to yrians( The French, lea#ing a AT! attac+ on Dibya, eually assiste# withweaons #elivery( They eually #roe# weaons in Tur+ey &or yrian rebels( The story was

same in A&ghanistan( 6e are all witnesses to the continue# anarchy in these laces( The ironyis that the so8calle# rebels, a&ter gaining some groun#s, turn their bac+s on 6estern#emocracy, in most instances, showing oen hatre# &or the 2( The &irst casualty in a ost8a##a&i 0&ree Dibya was an American 7nvoy, savagely +ille# by anti8a##a&i elements( The.//5 invasion o& Ira was re#icate# on the assumtion that the hiites, liberate# &roma##am Hussein, woul# welcome the 2nite# tates an# allow it to reshae Ira as it #esire#*art o& the logic o& the 0ush $octrine( It was uic+ly #iscovere#, however, that the Iraihiites, along with their Iranian allies, ha# very #i&&erent lans( The 2(( invasion ultimately&aile# to create a coherent government in Ira an# hele# create the current circumstance(

Come to thin+ o& it that the very ohn )erry, who romise# assistance to Dibyan an# yrianrebels is accusing %ussia o& assisting 2+rainian rebels, labelling it as immoral( 6as itimmoral to have suorte# other rebels elsewhere 6as it roer to have suorte# the

bloo#y urising that tole#3the Guschen+o government in 2+raine by mostly 6esternowers !& course, countries must have a moral &oun#ation &or their olicy an# such&oun#ation must be #iscerning an# ivote# on rational ros(

The story is same everywhere( The 6est &ans an# &un#s insurgencies, in the hoe o& gainingconverts to come un#er the 6estern liberal umbrella( o in 2+raine, the 0!range %evolutionwas heavily heral#e#( In other ost8oviet reublics, the same scenario was laye#( It is this+in# o& inter&erence that creates con#itions &or anarchy an# chaos( Inci#entally, 6estern

roagan#a is so huge an# lou# that the resistance to the imosition o& 6estern values is#escribe# in monstrous garbs( uch is the icture o& 'utin, o& a##am, o& a##a&i, Bugabe,Chave- an# any others, erceive# to be 0in the way o& #emocracy( anctions are threatene#or imose# coalitions are &orme# against such countries an#>or their lea#ershis globalmulti8lateral institutions *esecially the 2, IBF an#, the 6orl# an+ are stame#e# tothreaten such countries an# their lea#ers etc(

amuel Huntingtons re#ictions are coming true( The imosition o& liberal 6estern valueson countries, where they succee#, has cause# a shrin+ing o& olicy sace &or governments(7conomic governance is mortgage# into the han#s o& international institutions, notably the

Indeed, the go0ernment o+ $uchen%o #a bundled out o+ oce by an arrangement

onored by ermany, oland, and that undermined the %rainian contitution and et

the tage +or more intability

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IBF an# the 6orl# an+, whose olicies have e@acerbate# overty an# entrenche# mis8governance( The orth =outh clash is there&ore real( Beanwhile, the rise in Islamic&un#amentalism reresents a resentment o& imosition o& 6estern liberalism( That really isthe Clash o& Civilisations an# !T 0the en# o& history and the universalization of Westernliberal democracy as the &inal &orm o& human government( The biggest mani&estation o& this

clash is the rise in terrorist activities throughout the worl#(

The #emise o& the Col# 6ar has le&t the worl# in a systemic &lu@( The re#ictability o& aglobal system is no longer &easible( The war on terror can only be won, i& the worl# movesaway &rom the erroneous belie& in the 07n# o& History theory an# allows #emocracy toevolve( In that sense, institutions o& global governance, esecially the 2nite# ations, shoul#assert their autonomy an# assist countries &in# an otimal way o& ensuring inclusive,

articiatory, &orms o& governance, brewe# in national socio8historical an# cultural conte@ts(It must be note# that the chaos an# anarchy that has engul&e# the worl# are gra#ually causinga return to the Col# 6ar alliances are being &orme#, the arms race is on, an# the .1 stCenturycannot be sai# to assure us o& being more eace&ul than the ./th, sai# to be the most chaotic o&all centuries(

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