Historical Roots, Cultural Selection and the ‘New World OrderNew World Order’

Marcus Miller

A chapter in Fault Lines After COVID-19, 2023, pp 37-59 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Francis Fukuyama’s bold prediction that Western liberal democracy is ‘the final form of human government’ was promptly challenged by Samuel Huntington, who foresaw a continuing clash of civilisations. Besides these conflicting historical perspectives, we discuss others—where forms of governance emerge from competitive struggle (either domestically or between nation-states). We begin, however, with a summary of three eras of political economy post–World War II—including the current ‘age of the strongman’. Then the various perspectives are employed to see what light they throw on the declaration by China and Russia of a ‘New World Order’—and the invasion of Ukraine that followed. The focus is on how enduring the Russian ‘strongman’ example may prove in the Darwinian struggle of cultural competition.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-26482-5_3

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