Sentence examples for condition of anarchy from inspiring English sources

He pictured a permanent condition of anarchy without regular war or regular peace.

The condition of anarchy refers to the absence of a higher authority to adjudicate international disputes.

By this conception of the term, the only conceivable alternative to a constitution is a condition of anarchy.

In faraway Fairfax, close to Washington, a "meeting of loyal citizens" petitioned him to open the polls to end "their present condition of anarchy".

Contemporary international relations theory developed out of the urgent need to explain and predict the causes of war and peace between sovereign states existing in a condition of anarchy, or the lack of a central overarching authority.

"Europe has needed immigrants and continues to need them, but not in conditions of anarchy and indignity," Romano Prodi, president of the European Union's Executive Commission, said at the meeting.

But there is every reason for the rest of the world to worry too, because Yemen is joining Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya and Somalia as places where warlords rule in conditions of anarchy.

In a similar vein, the Swedish philosopher Torbjörn Tännsjö has argued that neither voluntary multilateral cooperation under conditions of anarchy, nor a hybrid arrangement of "shared sovereignty between the world government and nation-states", will be effective in resolving contemporary challenges in the realms of human security, global justice and the environment (2008, 122 125).

The Westphalian condition of organised anarchy is replaced by conditional state sovereignty; conditional in compliance with citizens' sovereignty.

So long as jealously sovereign nations refuse to submit to a higher level of law and order, we had better learn to share the travails of living in a condition of global anarchy.

These conclusions are ironic since the neorealist explanation of the cause of interstate war is the very condition of international anarchy, understood as the absence of a world government with supreme authority.