1.2) Broad Outlines of the Emerging International System

Let us look, very briefly, at what were the changes on the global level that came with the break-up of the Soviet Union.

• First--- It was the demise of a major military power which left U.S as the strongest among so many strong military powers of the world.
• Second--- Military alliances hinged on Soviet military power, disappeared.

As a result of these changes, as almost all political analysts agree, a situation very much similar to nineteenth century Europe has emerged. There are so many strong and competing powers but no single overwhelmingly powerful nation to dominate and shape the global agenda. U.S continues to aspire for global hegemony but it does not have the required capability. It cannot police the world single-handedly; the American tax payer is not ready for such a commitment. There are so many other reasons also, for example, one among them that 'power has become more diffuse' as Henry Kissinger would like us to believe, that have actually reduced U.S's ability to have a decisive role in global affairs.15

In this situation, two main considerations are shaping the international system that is gradually emerging under the NWO. One is the consideration of manageability. How in a changed situation the NWO agenda can be advanced uninterruptedly. Particularly, how continued 'economic growth' will be ensured, and how 'security threats' can be warded off.

The other is the consideration of interest. The predominant powers in the NWO, not ready to give up voluntarily their predominance, want to ensure that through any system that emerges, they are able to advance their interest.

The two considerations overlap in the sense that the former is almost subservient to the latter. Because of their overlap, the two considerations fuse into a yet 'higher' consideration namely that of 'stability'- that magic word which is used to mean nothing more than the maintenance of order in such a state that the vital interest of the dominant powers remain safe and secure.

1.2.1) Concert System

With an emerging state-system resembling that of nineteenth century Europe, the only workable system seems to be some kind of a concert system within which the key states in the NWO can operate. This concert system operated in Europe after 1814 and lasted till the first World War. G-7 already represents a concert system and its authoritative reach is attributed to its having all the concert characteristics.16 Concert systems are based more on 'common values'17 than on fixed rules (as for example UN which is not a concert system, in theory at least, is based on a UN Charter. How the Charter and the rules are manipulated by the dominant powers is besides the point here) and its participants are bound together, among other things, by commonality of purpose i.e they all have a shared interest in preserving the order.

1.2.2) Key States

Henry Kissinger sees the emergence of six major players in the future international system. These are U.S, Europe, China, Japan, Russia and 'probably' India.18 However, the basic point to understand is that it is not the question of this or that country becoming a key-player; there are explicit ground rules laid down by the NWO for the constitution of the international system. International system will be constituted by what Bill Clinton called 'world's community of market democracies'19 and it will be strengthened on the basis of Clinton's doctrine of 'Enlargement'20, which means 'expanding' "the community of market democracies" by increasing their strength and numbers'21... . The key states need not be 'democracies' in the technical sense of the term; for that matter China is not. All that is required of them is that they should be fanatic believers in the religion of money i.e should be pro-Market and they should have a firm commitment to ward off any threats to the Order i.e a commitment to fight Islam.

1.2.3) Type of Relationship

The key states in the system will have a relationship of 'partnership'22, where all of them will equally share the 'cost and commitment' 23 for advancing the NWO agenda.

1.2.4) Military-Strategic Dimension

The international system will have overwhelming strategic and military dimensions. It is noteworthy that Clinton's enlargement doctrine was later modified into the military-strategic doctrine 'engagement' which was explained in early 1994 by General John Shalikasvili, the chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff as a strategy that 'comprised the prevention of major threats to regional stability and partnership with friends and allies to help them take greater responsibility for peace and stability in their own regions"24.

1.2.5) Functioning of the System

The emerging system will function through international organizations, both, at global as well as regional levels. The organizations will work towards the twin objectives of expanding markets, and fighting Islam in the name of global or regional security as the case may be. For example, G-7, as mentioned above is the international organization at global level through which the international system functions: It promotes political-economic agenda of NWO and it chalks out strategies to fight Islam in the name of global security.25 Likewise European Union (EU), is an instance of international organization at the regional level, through which the system functions. Last year in November the EU held a special summit in Barcelona, Spain to which in addition to Morocco, eleven countries (almost all Muslim) from southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean were invited. This was done precisely for the same two objectives mentioned above: to create, by 2010 a free trade zone called the Euro-Mediterranean Economic Area (EMEA) and to combat Islam in the name of regional security. As John Hooper writing in The Guardian noted, the northern countries on the Mediterranean 'endorse the Western European Union and NATO papers argument that the main strategic threat to Europe comes from fundamentalism'26. So by extending the consumerist umbrella across to the South of Mediterranean, the North was working on the logic that "the only way to quell extremism is by offering people the real hope of prosperity."27

1.2.6) Integration of Asia-Pacific Region

In Asia, the Asia-Pacific region is getting fast integrated into the emerging system and organizations like ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) Regional Forum (ARF), and Asia Pacific Economic Community (APEC) may in future emerge as the main organizations through which the international system will function in that region.

1.2.7) 'Stabilizing' Mechanism

The international system will be 'stabilised' by the balance-of-power mechanism between the key players and it is through this mechanism that the predominant powers of the NWO will advance their interests.