The New World Order

Abstract

At the beginning of the 18th century, Comte asked: `How is it possible to avoid chaos and achieve order through stability?' At the end of 20th century, we are facing civil wars, ethnic cleansing, poverty and world-wide forced migration, growing numbers of refugees of wars and growing numbers of displaced persons. For the post-modern strategists, the question is still the same. The author finds that public health and then psychiatry have traditionally served as models for biopolitics. Nowadays, the cure for `world pathology' is clearly the same as it was during the first and second demographic and pathologic transition: using therapeutic spacing, isolation, enforced sequestration, `safe zones', `protected areas' and quarantines as tools for normalization of `deviant', `abnormal' and `sick' societies.