And this is probably one of the main features of our espace mondial.
The international system is obviously heterogeneous.
It's heterogeneous not only in the meaning gave by
Raymond Aron when he said that different kinds of regime were
coexisting during the Cold War in the bipolar system.
Of course, USSR and US, Eastern Europe and
Western Europe were not made of the same regimes.
But all of them were frankly states rooted in the Western tradition.
USSR, even USSR if it was also an empire,
was profoundly affected by the state
tradition which grew up in Europe.
Now in a global order, the things are quite different.
That's to say it's not only a question of difference of regimes, but
it's a question of coexistence of different kinds of political systems.
And among those political systems we have
to notice so many collapsing states.
And this global order so heterogeneous is,
of course, very difficult to rule out.
Can we rule an international order which is made of so
many contradictions, of so
many different cultures of politics, and
which is so deeply affected by the crises and
the failure of the Western state exploitation?
So that's why if we want to have access to this
international order, we have to point out
four kinds of deviant political systems.