What is it about?
The structure of the New World Order and its corresponding functions are becoming apparent. First, there will be a deconstruction of the nation-state. It will be bisected as power shifts to higher “macro-regional” levels on the one hand and lower “micro-regional” levels on the other. Second, there will be a disaggregation of the mixed political economy. It will be bifur- cated as socialism is used at upper levels of human aggregation to alleviate pollution and as capitalism is used at lower levels to alleviate poverty.
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Why is it important?
The NWO will be bi-level rather than bipolar, unipolar, or multi-polar as the public sector grows in one direction and the private sector grows in another. International agreement will lead to global regulation just as self-determination will lead to local deregulation. The NWO will be bi-functional rather than bipartisan, environmentally focused at the top or collective level and economically focused at the bottom or individual level. Government will protect both the wind and the waves whereas business will promote both travel and trade.
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Disaggregation of the mixed political economy is an even newer phenomenon than deconstruction of the nation- state. So “where it was once fashionable to speak of paradigm change, one now soberly acknowledges paradigm atrophy” (Weidenfeld, 2003, p. 153). But theory is simply waiting on fact. As events continue to unfold, both the operation and the form of the New World Order will become crystal clear. It will be a startling revelation that is profound, fundamen- tal, transformative, and paradigmatic. People everywhere should hope that “a new world order can emerge: a new era—freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice and more secure in the quest for peace . . . an era in which . . . east and west, north and south, can prosper and live in harmony” with each other and with nature (Bush, 1990).
Kern Craig
Troy University
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This page is a summary of: The New World Order: A Deconstruction of the Nation-State and a Disaggregation of the “Mixed Political Economy”, International Journal of Public Administration, June 2010, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/01900691003750739.
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