Abstract

This chapter examines three types of those paradigms of global politics, Westphalian (state-centric), Philadellphian (global republican) and Anti-Utopian (post postcolonialist and multicultural). In each of the three paradigms, geo-political framework, geo-economic foundations and geo-cultural networks are laid out with key concepts, principal authors, institutional unit, behavior principle, driving force, critical variable, key purpose and key effect being characterized. Principal authors are Henry Kissinger, Alexander Gerschenkron, and Benedict Anderson in the Westphalian paradigm, Francis Fukuyama, Robert Reich, and Benjamin Barber in the Philadelphia paradigm and Samuel Huntington, David Landes, and Robert Kaplan in the Anti-Utopian paradigm.