The Clash of Civilizations: And the Remaking of World Order - Hardcover

Huntington, Samuel P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684811642 ISBN 13: 9780684811642

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

As people increasingly define themselves by ethnicity or religion, the West will find itself more and more at odds with non-western civilizations that reject its ideals of democracy, human rights, liberty, the rule of law, and the separation of the church and the state. Huntington feels that the fundamental source of conflict in the post-Cold War period will not be primarily ideological or economic, but cultural. Picturing a future of accelerated conflict and increasingly "de-westernized" international relations, he argues for greater understanding of non-western civilizations and offers strategies for maximizing western influence, by promoting co-operative relations with Russia and Japan, by exploiting differences between Confucian and Islamic states, and by maintaining military superiority in East and South-West Asia.

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Product Description

Samuel Huntington explores issues about 1. A World of Civilizations, II. The shifting balance of Civilizations, III the emerging order of Civilizations, IV. Clashes of Civilizations and V. The future of Civilizations.encompassing populations expansion, nuclear proliferation, Asian economic development, human rights and democracy, and a strategy for co-existence.

Review

The thesis of the provocative and potentially important Clash of Civilizations is that the increasing threat of violence arising from renewed conflicts between countries and cultures that base their traditions on religious faith and dogma. This argument moves past the notion of ethnicity to examine the growing influence of a handful of major cultures--Western, Eastern Orthodox, Latin American, Islamic, Japanese, Chinese, Hindu and African--in current struggles across the globe. Samuel P Huntington, a political scientist at Harvard University and foreign policy aide to President Clinton, argues that policymakers should be mindful of this development when they interfere in other nations' affairs. --Christine Buttery

Edition details

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684811642
• ISBN 13: 9780684811642
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320