MEGATRENDS AND MEDIA

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apparently, brief spaces of times in which the distribution of power
among actors is vividly observable. Orders and the systems that orders
contain relect the quality of a given order or patterns of the embodied
systems, which actually are subject to change. Thus we describe a certain
order as an old order or a new order; we thus designate systems, too,
as a bygone old system or as a successive new system. Orders and the
systems they contain may be peaceful or violent; prospers or miserable;
they may generate threats to justice, freedom and democracy, or they
may serve to enhance these values. According to the deinition of several
authors, world order refers to “rules that govern – albeit in a messy and
ambiguous way – the most important relationships of the interstate
system in general, and the world’s great powers in particular.” 2 Bull
deines ‘international order’ as a pattern of activity that sustains the
elementary or primary goals of the ‘society of states’ or ‘international
society’. 3 He distinguishes international order from ‘world order’; the
latter implies the patterns or dispositions of human activity that sustain
the elementary or primary goals of social life among humankind as a
whole. 4 International order is understood as order of states; but since
states are simply groupings of people, people may be grouped in such a
way that they do not form states at all, and generate different structures.
Orders are human constructs; they work in favor of a dominant actor or
a group of actors, who rise and take the initiative of innovating norms
in the international or global environment to perpetuate the order that
works in their favor. Orders are longstanding frameworks, they relect
the dominant norms, customs, habits, rules and culture that associates
with the dominant actors’, who impact the order in their favor, while
a wider range of array in the order have no impact on it. Those actors
innovating norms for the order would like to see the order long-lasting,
because it works in their favor. They try all they can to protect and
maintain the order. Order thus refers to loose set of rules that govern
the most important relationships of the constituent interstate systems in
general, and the major powers in particular. Those, for whom the order is
not working well, would thrive to see a different order in which a wider
array of marginalized actors will be stake holders. A system is justiiable
2 GOLDSTEIN, J.: International Relations. New York : Longman, 2002, p. 43.
Also see MOSELLE, T. S.: The Concept of World Order, 2008, p. 1.
3 BULL, H.: The Anarchical Society. New York : Columbia University Press,
2002, p. 8.
4 BULL, H.: The Anarchical Society. New York : Columbia University Press,
2002, p. 19.
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