New world order

• Author: Cret Vasile
• Position: PhD Lecturer, AGORA University, Faculty of Law and Economics
• Pages: 58-62

NEW WORLD ORDER

Vasile Creţ

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Abstract

- The main logic of the international system in the XXI century was to be given not by

the democratization but by the globalization, the element found by the 9 / 11 in the

background of the international developments, but fully exploding on September 11, 2001.

Then, the Western academic community fully understood that, together with the democratic

revolutions, there had happened another one in the world, the First Global Revolution, and

this would lead to the acceleration of globalization.

- The dispersion of power in the current international system occurs due to two

causes: the increasingly obvious activism of the non-Western powers, especially the BRIC

countries, but also by the increasingly easy access to technology.

- The second biggest cause of power dissipation is the diffusion of high technology

and increasingly easy access to them. First, the qualitative transformation of higher

education and more free access to knowledge made possible the creation of Silicon Valley in

other countries, too. During the '70s the revival of the scientific and technological research

in South-East Asia, South Korea or Taiwan, after India and China is perhaps the most

spectacular case.

Key words: globalization, world order, political liberalization, dispersion of power,

economy, high technology, international relations.

Introduction

Globalization, as a phenomenon. In history books, the year of 1989 will have a

similar meaning to 1789, 1918 or 1945 years which are ending or opening historical cycles.

The events of 1989 have accelerated the course of history. The end of East-West ideological

conflict and its geopolitical and geostrategic consequences raised the lid from the planet

pressure pot. The Japanese teacher Rei Shiratori thinks that the period between 1989 and

1991, bounded by three significant events (revolutions of Central and Eastern Europe, the

Gulf War and the disappearance of the USSR) constitutes a real gate towards globalization.

1989 was a revolutionary year not only by the transformations in Central and Eastern

Europe, but these changes in turn resulted in what the Club of Rome considered to be the

„first global revolution"

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. 1989 represents a new beginning, Alexander King and Bertrand

Schneider, in their work, “The First Global Revolution”, published in 1989, stated that

mankind was in a great transition phase and by that referring to the beginning stage of a new

type of global society, be it a post-industrial society, an informational one or the services

society.

The main logic of the international system in the XXI century was to be given not by

the democratization but by the globalization, the element found by the 9 / 11 in the

background of the international developments, but fully exploding on September 11, 2001.

Then, the Western academic community fully understood that, together with the democratic

revolutions, there had happened another one in the world, the First Global Revolution, and

this would lead to the acceleration of globalization.

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PhD Lecturer, AGORA University, Faculty of Law and Econo mics, vasilecret@univagora.ro

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A.King şi B.Schneider, Prima Revoluţie Globală - o strategie pe ntru supravieţuirea lumii, Ed. Tehnică 1993.