ANARCHY-AN EMERGING NEW FORM OF GOVT?

There are pockets of Afaghanistan and Pakistan where national govts of these two countries have no influence at all.

The only authority that is tenable is exercised by tribal chiefs and any national govts influence must be weaved thro the local tribal authority to have any meaningful effect in these areas.

Incidentally,the same thing is also true in Hamas controlled areas of Palestine.

Formal govts are always at a loss when it comes to negotiations that involve direct contact with existing authorities in these areas as there is a lack of defined front to engage these amorphous forms of authority.

The same thing also happens near the Iraq/Turkey border with the Kurds.

Closer home here in KENYA,Somalia has also done without a formal govt since 1991 when the then bad govt of Mohammed Siad Barre was kicked out of power.

They seemed to be doing well with occasional sporadic clan fights that are usually as a result of carving out niches of authority for particular war lords.

When such misunderstandings are finally solved,life goes back to normal and anarchy reigns where individuals decide what to do with their life as well as lives of others whenever it is expedient to them.

All these pockets of anarchy however have one thing in common;they are constantly marked as the hot spots of conflict in the wider World.

But against all odds,they also remain the same way even after whatever interventionist action the world decides to take on them!

Kashmir has resisted action from India and Pakistan for a long time with each trying to pull it to its side.

These anarchist regimes try as much as posible to withdraw from the rest of the World and there is always relative calm within them untill something like the Pirate escapades bring them out to light.
They also serve as refuge for fugitives running away from taking responsibility for callous deeds done to the rest of the World.

Which leads to the 150 million USD question;is ANARCHY a new form of GOVT being propagated by FUGITIVES as their REFUGE or can the rest of the WORLD actually do without any FORMAL govt?

When the Pirates escapades are the only news that draw attention to the SOMALI crisis and the World seems to have forgotten that SOMALIA exists without any formal govt,then its time to ask ourselves whether anarchy is actually an alternative to bad govts like the one that was kicked out in Somalia in 1991.

Food for thought!