All roads lead to and from Iraq: the Long War and the transformation of the nation-state system

Autor:	Douglas A. Borer, Mark T. Berger
Rok vydání:	2007
Předmět:	Insurgency Modernity media_common.quotation_subject Development Capitalism Second World Power (social and political) State socialism Economy Political economy Nation state Sociology First World media_common
Zdroj:	Third World Quarterly. 28:457-463
ISSN:	1360-2241 0143-6597
DOI:	10.1080/01436590601154000
Popis:	This concluding article returns to some of the key themes of this volume in relation to insurgency, counter-insurgency and collapsing states. In particular it attempts to characterise the relationship between the Long War and the Cold War, in relation to the transformation of the nation-state system. More broadly it emphasises that the Cold War was an often misdirected, militarised struggle between ‘genuinely existing’ liberal capitalism and ‘genuinely existing’ state socialism (the First World and the Second World) against each other and for influence and power in the erstwhile Third World. The Long War, meanwhile, reflects both the triumph of ‘genuinely existing’ liberal capitalism as the dominant form of secular modernity over an equally, if not more virulently secular ‘genuinely existing’ state-socialism, and the emergence of an anti-secular neo-traditionalism (often, but not exclusively, Islamic) at both the nation-state and the transnational level. At the same time the binary that drove the...
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