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As the Internet expands into new realms of physical space through the Internet of Things, the price of anarchy will become a crucial metric in our society, and the temptation to eliminate it with the power of big data analytics will grow stronger.
But here we should consider what is lost when we reduce the level of anarchy.
The price of anarchy is a price well worth paying if we want to preserve innovation through serendipity.
The sense then of a “crumbling” world was captured by William Butler Yeats’s 1919 poem “The Second Coming”: “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.”
He argued that, in historic terms, “the absurd anarchy of European international organization” has been “the most propitious terrain imaginable for the full expression of racism.”
The Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith, who served under President Kennedy as US Ambassador to India, described the country as a “functioning anarchy.”
The Anarchy Factor in SyriaTEL AVIV – The failure of the Obama administration, its Western allies, and several Middle East regional powers to take bolder action to stop the carnage in Syria is often explained by their fear of anarchy.
In the immortal lines of W.B. Yeats’s great poem, “The Second Coming”:“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world… The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity… And what rough beast, its hour come round at last Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
What depraved vision imagines India without the spectacular anarchy of its many cultures?
Despite his insistence on rubbing shoulders with world leaders and portraying himself as a modernizer, Putin, like his predecessors, is in fact a ruler who believes that only authoritarian rule can protect his country from anarchy and disintegration.
Over and over again, in societies all over the world, the civilized norms that protect us from anarchy and violence turn out to be perilously thin.
Likewise, “Liberalism leads to excesses: to unemployment, anarchy.
By not permitting Russia to disintegrate into anarchy or leading it back to authoritarianism, Yeltsin kept the way open for such a leader to one day emerge.
The apparent anarchy of the Internet and digital news fueled a vibrant global movement of people eager to shed light on the inner workings of governments and corporations.
While many Iranians yearn for economic empowerment, many more fear a possible slide into anarchy and chaos.
What threatens to bring us closer to anarchy, he argues, is the idea that I have certain rights already, independent of the law.
Of course, this would be a recipe for global anarchy.
No Israeli government will risk making a far-reaching peace offer to a Palestinian Authority whose rule is characterized by abdication and anarchy.
In an anarchy, individuals may own property, as a dog owns a bone.
In fact, a nuclear Iran would launch the entire region into nuclear anarchy.
In the NIC’s view, “a collapse or sudden retreat of US power would most likely result in an extended period of global anarchy,” with “no stable international system and no leading power to replace the US.”
In fact, there is growing anarchy in the world's hotspots.
But the battle within Islam is not a satisfactory or sufficient explanation for the state of anarchy we see in a place like South Sudan, whose 11 million people gained independence just over three years ago.
Simultaneously, the eastern part of the country descended into anarchy.
Is the UN Security Council the institution most capable of ensuring order and saving us from anarchy?
Far from disparaging them as a threat to a new world order, we should recognize that they are, by default, the best hope for that order, and the true alternative to the anarchy caused by the dismal failure of the United Nations.
Libya has largely descended into tribal anarchy, and a weak Afghan regime is bracing itself for NATO’s withdrawal in 2014.
Nevertheless, the doomsday scenarios predicting anarchy and chaos in the post-Saleh era are most likely exaggerated.
According to Deudney and Meiser,“For some Americans, particularly recent neo-conservatives, intoxicated with power and righteousness, American exceptionalism is a green light, a legitimizing rationale, and an all-purpose excuse for ignoring international law and world public opinion, for invading other countries and imposing governments […] For others, American exceptionalism is code for the liberal internationalist aspiration for a world made free and peaceful not through the assertion of unchecked American power and influence, but rather through the erection of a system of international law and organization that protects domestic liberty by moderating international anarchy.”
The first step must be an agreement by both sides to engage in serious dialogue, before the current crisis spins into violent anarchy.
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