Are we entering/have we entered post-modernity?
Since the enlightenment movement in the eighteenth century, people have entered the age of modernity with the abandon of tradition and religious abuses, and the new thoughts of believing in rationality and individual human freedom. (Reiss, 1970, p54). Having been the mainstream political fundamental ideas and values for almost two hundred years, with the rising of realism, liberalism and many other dominant international relations theories, the emergence of post modernism has given heavy critics and doubts on these beliefs and challenged greatly on the theories, norms and approached that compose of the study of international relations.
This essay will define and explain both the conception of modernism and post-modernism as two contradicting doctrines and how they construct a either normative or positive vision of the world structure today of the study of international relations. Subsequently, to answer the question the argument is put forward that we have entered into postmodernism because of the process of globalisation, particularly in the aspects of economic and world …show more content…
For instance, African countries tend to have the characteristics of a pre-modern build-up of states. Firstly, there are the extreme religious beliefs that impact life significantly. (Jones, 2005) Secondly, the African economy is predominantly agricultural and inefficient with slow growth; poverty is prevalent in the area where people live below $1.25 per day and this is often forgotten in the discipline of IR. (Jones, 2005) For the political system, it is mostly based on kinship, clan and ethnicity. The governments tend to be corrupt and have long-term personal rule, which further hinders the development toward a modern political
Since the enlightenment movement in the eighteenth century, people have entered the age of modernity with the abandon of tradition and religious abuses, and the new thoughts of believing in rationality and individual human freedom. (Reiss, 1970, p54). Having been the mainstream political fundamental ideas and values for almost two hundred years, with the rising of realism, liberalism and many other dominant international relations theories, the emergence of post modernism has given heavy critics and doubts on these beliefs and challenged greatly on the theories, norms and approached that compose of the study of international relations.
This essay will define and explain both the conception of modernism and post-modernism as two contradicting doctrines and how they construct a either normative or positive vision of the world structure today of the study of international relations. Subsequently, to answer the question the argument is put forward that we have entered into postmodernism because of the process of globalisation, particularly in the aspects of economic and world …show more content…
For instance, African countries tend to have the characteristics of a pre-modern build-up of states. Firstly, there are the extreme religious beliefs that impact life significantly. (Jones, 2005) Secondly, the African economy is predominantly agricultural and inefficient with slow growth; poverty is prevalent in the area where people live below $1.25 per day and this is often forgotten in the discipline of IR. (Jones, 2005) For the political system, it is mostly based on kinship, clan and ethnicity. The governments tend to be corrupt and have long-term personal rule, which further hinders the development toward a modern political