The 1990s showed a global breakdown of law, order, and social solidarity

Evidence

Much evidence exists in the 1990s for the relevance of the “sheer chaos” paradigm of world affairs: a global breakdown of law and order, failed states and increasing anarchy in many parts of the world, a global crime wave, transnational mafias and drug cartels, increasing drug addiction in many societies, a general weakening of the family, a decline in trust and social solidarity in many countries, ethnic, religious, and civilizational violence and rule by the gun prevalent in much of the world. In city after city—Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, Bangkok, Shanghai, London, Rome, Warsaw, Tokyo, Johannesburg, Delhi, Karachi, Cairo, Bogota, Washington—crime seems to be soaring and basic elements of Civilization fading away. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 900

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the ‘decline of trust and social solidarity’ claims in Putnam’s Bowling Alone and to the failed-states literature. — connects to: Unelected bodies captured policy while media seized politics after the 1990s. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 146
• SHARE: The single-sentence catalogue spanning from Moscow to Washington naming crime surges in twenty cities would interest anyone who studies global governance or urban criminology.