Alterative readings of the global crisis in the second decade of the twenty-first century

Abstract

The increase to own levels of entropy in the current world order of an interconnected set of problems configures the global crisis, identified by high interest rates, fiscal and monetary deficits, cyberattacks and popular revolts, among other factors, which affect many countries of the world as an indisputable sign of a much broader organic and complex phenomenon that is called by Arbeláez-Campillo and Villasmil (2020) as a crisis of the current world order. Through the combination of the method of reviewing scientific documents and the use of SWOT analysis, which identifies strengths, opportunities, weaknesses and threats, the objective of this research is to assess the scenarios that account for the global crisis in the second decade of the twenty-first century, from an alternative reading of chaos theory, applied to the domains of socio-political studies. The results obtained allow us to conclude that unlike those that happen in the universe where chaos is a primordial force in close relation to the cosmological balance, in human history it is people and, more specifically, power actors, who act according to their interests and hegemonic agendas the true agents of chaos.