ABSTRACT
This chapter begins by focusing on a sense of crisis experienced by the Old World which took place following the Second World War. However, the horrors of that war and the corresponding failure of the rule of law are not the subjects of this chapter’s investigation of crisis. It should be clear from Chapter Five that the barbarism and savagery of the Second World War were no less than the horrendous intensification of the violent deployment of national power by European states in the preceding centuries. The sense of crisis focused on here is the fear of Marxism and its political manifestation in communism.
