Focus On: Myths, Politics and the Not-So-New World Order

Eurasian Security Studies, Department of Political Science Journal of Peace and Research, vol 30, no 3. 1993, p. 241-250 The New World Order threatens to degenerate into something drearily familiar. It now looks just as prone to self-serving and manipulated myth-preservation and myth-making, tribal ethnocentrism and the politics of fear and exclusion as were older world orders. If we cannot transcend the distorting bounds of our particular group or national’ cultures, then visions of a more just and less conflict-prone order will remain a mirage.