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2009.
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| Summary/Abstract |
This article reflects on the shape of 21st century world affairs. The impact of the current global financial crisis and economic crisis has exposed the inadequacies of international institutions. The traditional powers, whose negligence is largely responsible for the crisis, seem reluctant to share authority with the newly emergent economies upon whom the world must now rely for its recovery. The impacts of globalization, of greater militarization and weapons proliferation in international affairs, and of the dynamics of regionalism in international affairs, and of the dynamics of regionalism will all, however, shape a new hybrid order that will be more diverse and will require deeper understanding of forces like Islam that influence international relations. To be modern and successful in such a world, a country will not necessarily have to be Western.
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