NPQ

Today's date:

Special Issue 1997

• OBAMA'S SMART POWER

• CRASH

• THE RETURN OF THE MIDDLE
KINGDOM IN A POST-AMERICA
WORLD

• THE RISE OF THE REST

• POST GLOBALIZATION

• COMMENTARIES 2001-2007

• MADE IN CHINA

• THE TWO SOULS OF TURKEY

• THE NEW GLOBAL CINEMA

• MAKING GLOBALIZATION WORK

• DE-GLOBALIZE THE JIHAD

• THE THIRD WAVE'S THIRD WAY

• PLANET OF SLUMS

• THE GLOBAL IDEOLOGY
OF FEAR

• THE OTHER

• POST-NATIONAL
LITERATURE

• COLLAPSE OR MASSIVE
CHANGE?

• THE RISE AND FALL OF
AMERICA'S SOFT POWER

• THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION

• PUBLIC DIPLOMACY

• THE HEADSCARF CONTROVERSY

• SCULPTURE AND THE
NEW SCIENCE

• BIOTECH AND THE
NEW BABEL

• WAR THROUGH THE
BACK DOOR

• ANTIAMERICANISM

• THE RISING SOFT POWER
OF CHINA & INDIA

• THE BUSH DOCTRINE

• FAIRNESS IN A FRAGILE
WORLD

• AMERICA'S MIGHT

• ISLAM IN THE 21ST CENTURY

• ANTIGLOBOS

• HOT PEACE

• MODUS VIVENDI

• LOOKING NORTH

• FROM WELL HAVING TO
WELL BEING

• POST-HUMAN HISTORY

• GLOBAPHOBIA

• THE GLOBAL MIND

• AFTER KOSOVO

• FROM VIETNAM TO KOSOVO

• DEGLOBALIZATION?

• THE RISE OF THE MEDIA-
INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

• BOOM [NUCLEAR] AND
[BUST] ECONOMIC IN ASIA

• BEYOND CAPITALISM

• ASIAN CRISIS

• CHINA: THE ASIAN
RENAISSANCE

• SLOW IS BEAUTIFUL

• ECLIPSE OF THE BIG
PICTURE

• AFTER THE END OF
HISTORY

• THE EAST IS RED AGAIN

• HALF-A-HEGEMON

• THIRD WAVE TERRORISM

• HEIMAT

• Fall 1987

• Winter 1987

• Spring 1986

• Fall-Winter '84-'85

• Spring 1984

The Post-Modern State and the World Order

Robert Cooper, a British diplomat based in Bonn, is perhaps the most insightful thinker on the geopolitics of the present moment. This article, the first part of which appeared in the Summer 1997 issue of NPQ, has been published in pamphlet form by Demos, a think tank and publishing house in London.

A copy may be obtained by contacting Demos by phone or at 011-44-171-353-4479 or by fax at 011-44-171-353-4481 or e-mail @demos.co.uk, website: www.demos.co.uk.

The opinions expressed in this article are the author's own and should not be taken as an expression of official government policy.

Bonn - This is a new world, but there is neither a new world order - to use the phrase that was fashionable in the early 1990s, nor is there a new world disorder - to use the phrase that is more fashionable today. Instead there is a zone of safety in Europe, and outside it a zone of danger and a zone of chaos.

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