0 a situation in which there is no organization and control, especially in society, because there is no effective government:
1 a lack of organization and control in a society or group, esp. because either there is no government or it has no power:
The development of the new theory came about in reaction, both normative and scientific, to the anarchy model.
This political dissolution was perceived to be creating a vacuum into which ethnic nationalism could spread chaos and anarchy.
Neither of these extremes is a good approximation of how individuals in anarchy are likely to interact.
It is difficult to understand what the absence of monarchy might be, if not anarchy.
Not surprisingly, a kind of anarchy ensued, each student grasping for individual advantage.
Of the discourses we have mentioned, market liberalism, anarchy and even sustainable development have their vociferous critics.
A movement initiated in the fold of subjectivation, it is anarchy.
Whatever one might ultimately conclude by analyzing this game of incomplete information need not characterize the behavior of all of the parties in anarchy.
