Was Thomas Hobbes Too Optimistic? ...Middle East

When Thomas Hobbes described life in a state of nature as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short,” he penned one of the most celebrated sentences in the English language. The seventeenth century philosopher asserted that that without “a common power to keep them all in awe,” human beings fall into a state of nature—a condition of anarchical warfare and lawless predation. It is an analysis that resonates powerfully at the present time, when states are failing in many parts of the world leaving chaos and crime in their wake. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] For Hobbes, who fled the English Civil War in fear of his life to reside in Europe for some years, a state of nature was no

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