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Alternatives to the emergence of global anarchy range from a loose federation that emerges peacefully and spontaneously to a constructed, Westphalian based balance of power approach to a tributary type system as long practiced by China under the notion of Tianxia. Leaders around the world, and especially American leaders, need to think through the implications of these various alternatives. A failure to arrest anarchy will crush any dreams of equality among people as the struggle for survival takes precedence.
Avoiding Hobbes’ curse of human life as one of “continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short,” does not require a perfect order, it merely requires a good enough, if imperfect, order.
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