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- For some scholars, analysts and policy makers – especially but not exclusively in the United States – 9/11 marked the practical onset of Samuel Huntington’s ‘clash of civilizations’ between two cultural entities: the ‘Christian West’ and the ‘Islamic world’, with special concern directed at Islamic ‘fundamentalists’ or ‘radical terrorists’.
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Huntington identifies a major shift of economic, military, and political power from the West to the other civilizations of the world, most significantly to what he identifies as the two "challenger civilizations", Sinic and Islam.
- Samuel P. Huntington
- 1996
May 1, 2018 · It is now a quarter of a century since Samuel Huntington first published his treatise about what he understood as an epochal event in international relations: the post-Cold War ‘clash of civilizations’.
- What Are ‘Civilizations’?
- Clashes Between Civilizations
- Religion as A More Significant Cause of Conflict…
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For Huntington, civilizations are ‘cultural entities’ differentiated from each other by history, language, cultural traditions and, most importantly, religion. Huntington distinguishes between the following different civilizations, as represented in the map above. 1. Western 2. Confucian 3. Japanese 4. Islamic 5. Hindu 6. Slavic-Orthodox 7. Latin A...
To back up his argument, Huntington points to the fact that there are many conflicts on the borders between civilizations: 1. The former Yugoslavia between Orthodox Christian and Muslim civilizations. 2. In the Middle East between Judaism, Islam and Western Christianity. 3. In India the clash between Muslims and Hindus. Huntington believes that the...
Huntington is one of the few academics of religion who argue against the secularisation thesis. He believes that civilizations, based mostly on religious identity, will become an increasingly important source of conflict in the future. At the moment, Western civilization is dominant, however, as the ‘Islamic’ and ‘Hindu’ civilisations develop more ...
I’m not convinced there is any real empirical basis for Huntington’s ‘fault-lines’.Even if there is some empirical basis for his civilizations, I’m convinced that religion is going to remain that important as a source of identity within each of them: the global trend, as in the W...scientist Samuel Huntington in The Clash of Civilizations (1998), comprises an elite group of highly educated people who operate in the rarefied domains of international finance, media, and diplomacy. Named after the Swiss town that began hosting annual meetings of the World Economic Forum in 1971, these “Davos” insiders….
Sep 3, 2013 · It was 20 years ago that Samuel Huntington's essay on what he termed "the clash of civilizations" was first published in the journal Foreign Affairs. The essay predicted the next frontier of...
Western civilization has two major variants, European and North American, and Islam has its Arab, Turkic and Malay subdivisions. Civilizations are nonetheless meaningful entities, and while the lines between them are seldom sharp, they are real.
Huntington provides a list of the major contemporary civilizations, as he defines them: Sinic (Chinese), Japanese, Hindu, Islamic, Orthodox, Western, Latin American, and possibly African.
