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Growth of Daesh due to Fall of Nation States
Sam Ghandchi
http://www.ghandchi.com/1046-daesh-nation-states-english.htm
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In the last three decades with the growth of globalization, the importance of
national states has continuously weakened in the world. Also in the past fifteen
years, Islamist terrorism has had a strong growth in the world (1).
The press have repeatedly discussed the issue of US attack in Iraq and noted the
disintegration of Iraqi state giving rise to the growth of Al-Qaeda's terrorism
and then Daesh. But what we see with the lack of a nation state in Iraq after
the war is a more general issue that basically the nation states in the world
have weakened and this was the road for those currents seeking "world
government" including those wanting it with the model of Caliphate, to gain
strength. For example, simultaneous with fall of the Soviet Union, the Islamist
forces in Afghanistan grew and this trend in different parts of Russia and
former Soviet Republics is continuing to this day.
The attempts to bring back the strong authority of nation states of Industrial
Society which showed itself with the American and French Revolutions, is not
practical with the current economic reality of the world and global political
solutions are the way of the future. United Nations can be a small part of such
endeavors (2).
Surely if the progressive forces of the world cannot create new alternative ways
of governance in this era of globalization, the backward forces such as Daesh
will fill the void by offering their Utopian alternatives of returning to the
past (3).
Hoping for a democratic and secular
futurist republic in Iran,
Sam Ghandchi, Editor/Publisher
IRANSCOPE
http://www.ghandchi.com
http://www.iranscope.com
November 20, 2015
Footnotes:
1. From NY to Paris, 15 Years of Terror
http://www.ghandchi.com/1043-ny-to-paris-english.htm
2. A Futurist Vision
http://www.ghandchi.com/401-FuturistVisionEng.htm
3. Middle East Trapped in Utopianism
http://www.ghandchi.com/821-middle-east-utopianism-english.htm
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