Thermidor: Some Case Studies On How and Why Complex Organizations Come Apart In Modern Times

Former Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg once said that the Constitution of the United States is not a suicide pact. The opinion of this book is that neither is the Constitution of the United Nations that is International Law. Violent fundamentalist societies - i.e., Thermidorian societies - come into conflict with their own people as well as with International Law, which is the last line of defense of civilized international society. The question is, in a violent world, who will deal with the violent? In this book, we work out the nature of Thermidorian society so that civilized international society - meaning those that do not want to kill their neighbors - will understand what they have to deal with into the 21st century when they confront this phenomenon once more, as they have throughout the 20th century, a century of totalitarianism and terror.