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2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
In 1990, U.S. political scientist John Mearsheimer predicted that we would soon "miss the Cold War."1 In the months and years that followed, the eruption of bloody conflicts in the Balkans and in Africa gave birth to fears of a new era of global chaos and anarchy. Authors such as Robert Kaplan and Benjamin Barber spread a pessimistic vision of the world in which new barbarians, liberated from the disciplines of the East-West conflict, would give a free rein to their ancestral hatreds and religious passions.2 Journalists James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg chimed in that violence would reassert itself as the common condition of life.3 Former U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan warned that the planet was about to become a "pandemonium."4
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