Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Panarchy is what we make of it

See Paul Hartzog's paper here. The introduction follows. See the link for much more. It's what I've come to call hier(pan)archy.

"Alexander Wendt begins his paper 'Why a World State is Inevitable' with the following concise formulation of his intent: 'In this article I propose ateleological theory of the  "logic of anarchy" which suggests that a world state is inevitable…' (Wendt, 2003: 1). I offer the following equally concise opposition: In this article I propose a teleonomic theory of the ‘logic of panarchy’ which suggests that a world state is not inevitable. I suggest that the stable “state” for this teleonomic process is a global 'complex adaptive system,' or governance network, in which the 'logic of anarchy' gives way to the 'logic of panarchy.'”


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