1. Paradigms for the Post-Cold War World
Why has it taken us so long to decide?

2. A Huge Amount of Theorizing….
Benjamin Barber
Samuel Huntington
Joseph Nye
Francis Fukuyama
Robert Kaplan

3. Samuel Huntington: The Clash of Civilizations

4. Clash of Civilizations
Samuel P. Huntington “Clash of Civilizations” Foreign Affairs 1993
The Book appeared in 1998

5. The History of Warfare since 1648
The wars between princes and monarchs
Wars between nations and peoples
Conflicts of ideologies & the Cold War

6. Huntington’s Civilizations

7. Why Civilizations Will Clash
Divisions are basic & Real
The World is becoming smaller
Globalization separates people from local identities

8. Why Civilizations Will Clash
The current global power of western civilization
Cultural differences are less mutable
Economic regionalism is growing

9. Benjamin Barber: Jihad vs. McWorld

10. Jihad vs. McWorld 1996 Four Imperatives
Market
Resource
Information-Technology
Ecological
Jihad – Lebanonization of the World
McWorld – Peace, Prosperity and Unity
Good News/Bad News

11. Robert Kaplan: The Coming Anarchy

12. The Coming Anarchy 1994
West Africa as a model for issues confronting civiliation
Disease
Hunger
Overpopulation
Corruption
Resource scarcity
Democratic deficit
Conflict supported by resources
Gangs/tribes replacing states
“Escape from New York”

13. Francis Fukuyama: The End of History and the Last Man

14. The End of History and the Last Man 1992
Hegelian Dialectic
The End of History – “The state is liberal enough to recognize and protect man’s universal right to freedom and the state is democratic enough to only exist with the consent of the governed.”
The previous challenges to Liberalism are destroyed
Religion and Nationalism are not viable threats
The “deideologized” world is not without conflict

15. Joseph Nye: A New World Order

16. A New World Order 1992 Five Alternative Visions World Federalism
Functionalism
Regionalism
Ecologism
Cyberfeudalism