is still very much living in the “modern” age, in which states compete with all means at their disposal in order to defend their interests in the geopolitical struggle. Part of the world is even stuck in “pre-modernity”: “failed states” where the state has collapsed, or where there has never even been a well-functioning central authority. Here we find chaos and anarchy, and the law of the jungle. To remain blind for this, consciously or unconsciously, is to take a big risk, for then the drivers of international politics cannot be understood.
