Redefining security in the new world order

Abstract

The New World Order (NWO) was proclaimed as the advent of a new era of peace and stability. The reality was, however, soon exhibited with dazzling clarity by the Gulf War. A few days after the NWO was announced, The Times of India, a mainstream Indian newspaper, made the following observation: The conduct of the Western powers has revealed the seamiest sides of Western civilisation; its unrestricted appetite for dominance, its morbid fascination for hi‐tech military might, its insensitivity to “alien” cultures, its appalling jingoism. The NWO's power structure is grossly iniquitous. Political, military, economic, technological, and cultural power lies in the hands of a few elites, states, and corporations located predominantly in the North. The policies they dictate are implemented in an international context where the NWO has become a euphemism for the imperialism of Western capitalism, mortgaging the South's economic and political sovereignty.