New Global Governance and the Future of the State Institution in the Middle East

Changes in the international system, along with crises in the Middle East andthe emergence of inefficient states coexisting with religious and racial groupsin the region, make one wonder about the nature of the state in today’ssystematic world, in general, and the nature of the state in the Middle East, inparticular. The present study provides a theoretical framework based onquantum mechanics, known as New Global Governance or the pattern ofproliferative order (in contrast to the distributive order pattern) in an attemptto examine changes in the concept of the state in developed anddeveloping/underdeveloped (the Middle East) countries. It focuses on classstructure in the context of global governance and the way in which it isrelated to the state in order to examine the nature of the state in the future.The study argues that in the new systemic order in developed worlds, statesdrive class struggles from the economic realm into the political realm andsustain themselves as an institution. However, in the Middle East, states aremythic; they lack social bonding forces and are highly influenced by classstructure, dominant political and economic structures, their meta-classnature, and the emergence of multi-group movements challenging states, makingthem vulnerable to continuous breakdown. In such a situation, new myths ofgovernance as governance institutes, such as partisan-urban governance in theKurdistan region, the Islamic emirate of al-Qaeda, the Isis Islamic Caliphate, theRojava Cantons and the Democratic confederalism of P.K.K. will replace thestate and the collapsed states will never regain their power.