ABSTRACT
The geopolitical context in understanding the possibilities of the emergence of a dialogic order is significant. Ironically with globalization as political policing weakens, wars become scattered. There was no world war. Without a formal peace treaty, peace had survived. The short wars of the last fifty years and particularly after 1989 - the year of restoration - have been gory, but more important have had world consequences. Little wars thus remain bound to be represented in another image and it is not surprising that they are represented in a mirror of a great war. The wars in the Gulf, Rwanda, Afghanistan, Algeria, Bosnia and Kosovo in particular, have drawn the cold war/the long peace to a close in a bizarre way. The proclivity of such a structure to slide into a war condition may be due to the presence or absence of certain extra-structural factor.
