Conclusion

Abstract

’the Coming Anarchy’, Robert D. Kaplan entitled his article on civilisations on the brink of erosion in February 1994. What at the time might have sounded like a prophecy of doom has proven to be a fairly accurate calculation of how the world would develop over the next seventeen years, even if the beginnings of current international developments had been evident years ago and could have been deduced from several insightful studies on the evolutions of conflict zones and the erosion of states. Nevertheless, especially the notion of the homo sacer as discussed by Giorgio Agamben and the question of refugees gained more and more prevalence in this study than they might have done under different political circumstances. It is the theatre’s underlying objective to make visible the unseen, the things we will not acknowledge, whose existence we deny.