The Coming Anarchy (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert D. Kaplan
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Current affairs and history
- Time of Work: The late 1980’s to 2000
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs, History
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Twenty-first century, 1980’s, Capitalism, Democracy, 1990’s, Environment or environmental health, Diseases, Cold War
The end of the Cold War in the late 1980’s produced a wave of optimism throughout most of the Western world. Despite the fierce regional conflicts that scarred the 1990’s, that optimism seemed to endure in the American public consciousness. The way forward, it appeared, was clear: The worldwide growth of democracy and free trade would ensure peace and prosperity for all; democratic capitalism had proved itself to be the best way for human societies, on the cusp of the twenty-first century, to organize themselves.
Put like this, the naïveté and complacency of such notions...
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