Deconstructing Our Dark Age Future

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Abstract

This article suggests that the system of Westphalian states is not in decline, but that it never existed beyond a utopian allegory exemplifying the American experience. As such, the Dark Age thesis is really not about the decline of the sovereign state and the descent of the world into anarchy. It is instead an irrational response to the decline of American hegemony with a naïve emphasis on the power of nonstate actors to compete with nation-states. The analysis concludes that because the current paradigm paralysis places a higher value on overstated threats than opportunities, our greatest hazard is not the changing global environment we live in, but our reaction to it.

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Phillips, P. M. (2009). Deconstructing Our Dark Age Future. The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters, 39(2). https://doi.org/10.55540/0031-1723.2475

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