Abstract:
Changes in the international system, along with crises in the Middle East and
the emergence of inefficient states coexisting with religious and racial groups
in the region, make one wonder about the nature of the state in today’s
systematic world, in general, and the nature of the state in the Middle East, in
particular. The present study provides a theoretical framework based on
quantum mechanics, known as New Global Governance or the pattern of
proliferative order (in contrast to the distributive order pattern) in an attempt
to examine changes in the concept of the state in developed and
developing/underdeveloped (the Middle East) countries. It focuses on class
structure in the context of global governance and the way in which it is
related to the state in order to examine the nature of the state in the future.
The study argues that in the new systemic order in developed worlds, states
drive class struggles from the economic realm into the political realm and
sustain themselves as an institution. However, in the Middle East, states are
mythic; they lack social bonding forces and are highly influenced by class
structure, dominant political and economic structures, their meta-class
nature, and the emergence of multi-group movements challenging states, making
them vulnerable to continuous breakdown. In such a situation, new myths of
governance as governance institutes, such as partisan-urban governance in the
Kurdistan region, the Islamic emirate of al-Qaeda, the Isis Islamic Caliphate, the
Rojava Cantons and the Democratic confederalism of P.K.K. will replace the
state and the collapsed states will never regain their power.
Machine summary:
New Global Governance and the Future of the State Institution in the Middle East1 Siamak Bahrami Assistant Professor, Department of Political Sciences ,Kermanshah Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran.
The present study provides a theoretical framework based on quantum mechanics, known as New Global Governance or the pattern of proliferative order (in contrast to the distributive order pattern) in an attempt to examine changes in the concept of the state in developed and developing/underdeveloped (the Middle East) countries.
The study argues that in the new systemic order in developed worlds, states drive class struggles from the economic realm into the political realm and sustain themselves as an institution.
However, in the Middle East, states are mythic; they lack social bonding forces and are highly influenced by class structure, dominant political and economic structures, their meta-class nature, and the emergence of multi-group movements challenging states, making them vulnerable to continuous breakdown.
It is assumed in the study that, in the new systemic condition, states in developed counties with full-scale class structure will drive class conflict from economics into politics to sustain their classic and centralized identity.
On the contrary, because of the marginal class system of the Middle East, the myth of the state collapses and gives way to alternative religious/racial systems such as partisan-urban governance in Kurdistan, Iraq, Islamic emirate of al-Qaeda, Isis Islamic Caliphate, Rojava Cantons and Democratic confederalism of P.
In fact, they founded global governance to readjust themselves with the new order and adopted a delay strategy to adjust the class struggle in economics through the political engagement of agents in the state structure.