Država nakon Novog Svetskog Poretka – liberalni snovi i surova realnost
The State After the New World Order - Liberal Dreams and Harsh Reality

Summary/Abstract: This paper will ask a series of hopefully interlinked questions that will re-emerge throughout: Firstly, What is the legacy, positive and negative of the process that the author would argue has dominated the last one hundred years, that of the creation of a just and peaceful international order? Secondly, how does this fit into the debate that has emerged since the end of the Cold war about the state? Thirdly, how does this in turn fit into the debate about 'globalisation'? Finally, where does this leave our notion of order and justice for ordinary people and the international system as a whole? Can we be, cautiously optimistic or just plain pessimistic about the NWO or the liberal ideas that the author would claim underpin it? Much of the current debate in International Relations and politics in the more general sense is directed to examining the current situation in which the state finds itself, especially in conjunction with the phenomenon of globalisation. Here liberals quite clearly do not win all the theoretical battles, although arguably liberal ideas such as that of the 'democratic peace' where it is asserted that democracies do not go to war with one another, is widely accepted. As Mary Kaldor has suggested, globalisation has itself changed the nature of war, but war has changed the nature of globalisation.

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