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The Clash of Civilisations - Discuss. Samuel Huntington asserts in his
1996 book ?The Clash of the Civilisation and the Making ...
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Submitted by joshf on August 19, 2007
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Samuel Huntington asserts in his 1996 book “The Clash of the Civilisation and the Making of a New World Order” that conflicts of the future will not be on the traditional grounds of economic power or ideology but on cultural grounds. The new fault line in world conflicts will be clashing civilisations. Further, Huntington asserts that the major division, and major conflict of the future, will be that between the west and ‘the rest’ of the world. To examine this hypothesis we will address the social, economic and military/strategic worthiness of this statement.
The Cold War provided some comfort to political scientists, especially those realists who believe in the need for balance of power in international relations. This bi-polar world was comparatively easy to study, but with the fall of the Soviet block, what shape does the world take from here? We currently live in US hegemony, and for the moment it appears as though hegemonic stability holds true, despite several small wars and the threat of terrorism in the Western world (Kegley 2007). In his book, “The Clash of Civilisations and the Remaking of World Order”, Samuel Huntington holds that very soon a new multi-polar post-Cold War world will be divided by confrontations between civilisations. Huntington holds that a new world system of multipolarity and multi-civilisational politics is emerging, each civilisation with its own member countries clustered around a core state or states functioning as an independent pole. The eventual result of these confrontations will be a division of the West versus ‘the rest’. The rest, as Huntington sees it, will be led by an Islamic-Cino alliance. Huntington believes that the nation states will still be the most powerful actors but the principle source of conflict will be a difference of culture. If culture is the main cause of future military action then economic and ideological differences obviously must play a less prominent role.
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