ABSTRACT
The goal of this chapter is to extend the social theories, now heavily influenced by NDS, from the previous chapters to national and supranational systems. The first new observation is the unusual number of times books on sociopolitical or socioeconomic themes contain the word “chaos” in their titles. Examples include Empire of Chaos (Amin, 1992), which refers to the role of capitalism and world economy, The Politics of Chaos (Neatby, 1972), which concerns the politics of Canada in the 1930s, Cocoa and Chaos in Ghana (Mikell, 1989), which describes the social and economic turbulence in that country caused in part by its monocrop agricultural base, Policies of Chaos (White, 1989), concerning the politics of the People’s Republic of China, and Anarchy or Chaos (Woodcock, 1944), which is a history of the major anarchistic political movements that were particularly influential in England. I discovered Freedom Chooses Slavery (d'Andrade, 1959) accidentally while chasing down another book in the library; chapter 1 was entitled, “Internal Well-being versus International Economic Chaos,” and chapter 2, “Accident in the Life of the World.”
