A New World Order

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The paper explores the establishment of a possible new world order in light of Anne Slaughter's article on transgovernamentalism entitled 'The Real New World Order'. An assessment, through a series of examples, is made regarding the viability of her thesis as well as her own supporting arguments. The paper explains that Slaughter argues that the state, although it represents a national entity, can cooperate through its own institutions in a transnational manner. The paper concludes by considering that a possible solution for the framing of a new world order may be the political and institutional implementation of the theory of transgovernamentalism, a solution that despite its minor issues, may cater for the cooperation needs of the decades to come.

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"Since the end of the Cold War, there have been serious debates concerning the reconsideration of the world order. The Cold War marked the unchanged situation in which the national state represented the most important actor of the international scene. Moreover, at the time of the bipolar system, the realist line of thought placed the focus on the possibility of the nations to shape and constantly change their politics without being able to change the system. Therefore, during the Cold War it can be said that although the system was made up of the nation states, there were other forces as well that influenced the way in which international politics was being developed. In the late 1970s, these forces argued the promoters of institutionalisms were the non state actors, more precisely the NGOs and the international governmental organizations. By the end of the Cold War however, these structures assumed more and more a leading role in shaping the conduct of foreign policy."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Slaughter, A. 1997. 'The real new world order'. Foreign Affairs. vol. 76, no. 3, pp 183-197.

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