Anne-Marie Slaughter (1997), too, believes that the world order is not the one that has long been depicted by the proponents of state-centric paradigm. Slaughter (1997: 183) draws attention to the failure of the international order based on the nation-states and the intergovernmental organizations and asserts that the routine proclamations of new world order by world leaders are in fact illusions since such attempts have for the most part referred to a system that relies on the proper functioning of nation-states.