ABSTRACT
The United States has emerged from the Cold War in a precarious economic position. It is possible to identify several major interpellations which have, and can further, enfeeble the restitutive mechanism of the contemporary interstate order. First, there has been a sudden, rapid and comprehensive depolarization of international power configuration. The second interpellation concerns the emergent organizing construct to prevent international system from lapsing into chaos. The third interpellation concerns sovereignty of nation states. Fourth, the revival of Muslim fundamentalism and its growing influence on the thinking of modern nation states and their external behaviour is becoming an alarming cause for the Western powers, and to the founded secular democratic traditions in many Asian, African and independent states of the former Soviet Union. Fifth, every state machinery is constrained by the operations of the world capitalist economy. Sixth, there is a potential and in some cases actual challenge of a major ecological disequilibrium fast approaching.
