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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

By Samuel P. Huntington

Book information

Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Year
1996
ISBN
0684811642, 9780684811642
LCC
D860 .H86 1996
Open Library ID
OL992997M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2334466 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
\0
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

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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