The unhesitant acceptance of this humanitarian antidote and its advocates’ readiness to its indiscriminate disbursement however elicits several problems. Increasingly and mechanically, humanitarian military interventions have been absorbed into academic and political discourse and interpreted as the ultimate panacea to remedy the pandemic of human suffering, now spanning the globe. In turn, through the germination of the cosmopolitan seeds sown in this hostile environment, the cosmopolitan resolve which tended toward non-intervention in its nascent Kantian stage, has shifted to one of military interventions on behalf of humanity. The resurrection of this global cosmopolitan ethos has partly occurred in response to this modern illustration of the world. Simultaneously, this contemporary era is depicted as fertile breeding ground for new forms of conflict: from genocide, to ethnic cleansing, to civil wars. In lieu of this deemed ‘archaic model,’ it is said that the world system of states and its peoples have entered a new era of enlightenment captured by a wide-spread embrace of a ‘cosmopolitan’ ethos pronounced particularly by eager academicians. It is commonly considered now that the whole of human society has broken free from the tethers of Super-Power rivalry and the iniquitous and antiquated systems which it consequently produced and sustained have subsequently withered.
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