ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the decline of the state and political order is inevitable with the breakdown of any preceding world order, as happened after the collapse of the former USSR. It examines that there will be a repoliticization of war and the occurrence of violence and conflicts about order, which will lead to the reshaping of global political order. The chapter illustrates various dimensions of order wars being waged in the twenty-first century. During the Cold War and the arms race between the superpowers, the world stood on the brink of a nuclear catastrophe on several occasions, but violence and conflicts seemed to fit into clear categories of interpretation: East versus West. Since the end of the East–West conflict, terms like risk society, reflexive modernization, and globalization have been used in both academic and general debates as part of an intensifying debate about how the accelerating transformation of social and national identities are affecting societies.
