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25 % of a century after the end of Communism swept away the ideological conflict of the "short 20th century", a new world is once again taking shape, this time in the Middle East. But what does indeed the crisis in the region, and its refugee exodus into European countries, signify for future years of the world? And just why has the commendable imagine nation-building failed? Concentrating mainly on religion, ideology or economics, most evaluation ignored one important factor: asabiyyah, or group sense, something specified six and a half centuries ago by way of a largely ignored Arab historian called Ibn Khaldun. Ibn Khaldun is basically overlooked in the west, yet, on top of his lay claim to being one of the biggest historians of all time, can rightfully be looked at as the daddy of social technology and sociology. His publication, The Muqaddimah, dealt with a variety of content from technology to economics to the surge and semester of empires, which he attributed to "the asabiyyah cycle" - the advancement of societies from barbarism to civilization to decadence, which he attributed to the strength of "group feeling". Right now asabiyyah can be an essential element of human world and development, and it is the key to understanding why some state governments fail yet others do well, why democracy works sometimes but often not, and just why the nation-state will stay the foundation of human world. Whatever happens to any extent further, the outcome of the 21st hundred years will be reliant on asabiyyah, which remains the essential reality of human being existence.
