Huntington's Theory Of The Clash Of Civilization By Samuel Huntington

Each one of the claims will go onto support the overall issue that culture will cause the clash of civilizations. A great support Huntington uses is that no matter what we think of cultures each one is different in many ways. If its religion, language, or different historical backgrounds these will cause conflict to arise. With each civilization being different it can be hard to get along with other people because of how different their views might be. Another issue that arises is that not all, but many civilizations are influenced by the west. This is where the idea of westernization comes into play. Each community is trying to improve and be bigger and better themselves, they are trying to be better than their neighbors. If one civilization improves the surrounding groups will want to be the same. This means they will compete to be the same or even better than the civilization that already made it. This can lead to conflict and death between civilizations. Another reason is that when conflicts arise between civilizations it is a lot harder to resolve than a political or economical one. Like stated before it is very difficult to change someone’s beliefs, that means there is very little wiggle room for negotiation. The final example that Huntington writes about is that the economic regionalism is increasing. This means that more cultures and civilization are trading between themselves, but

Huntington also does not see westernization as a desirable surge that engulfs world politics. Conflict is very natural and history proves that argument. The author takes away focus from states as a foundation of war in the future and more on conflict between major culture regions. He states that peoples cultural and religious identities will be the primary bases of conflict post cold war. The world is becoming a smaller place with modernization and technology; thus, relations between people of different civilizations deepen consciousness and awareness. Post cold war, the role of the Western society enhances the growth of civilization. Unlike Fukuyamas argument, Huntington states that cultural characteristics and differences are more complex to solve than political and economical

In Samuel Huntington’s thesis, Clash of Civilizations, he describes the post-Cold War world as one that would now base its conflicts on people’s culture and religion. As among one of his few reasons why civilizations will clash, Huntington explains that these religious conflicts will come about because of the ideals of Islam and Christianity where they are willing to kill people who do not convert because each believes that only they have the correct religion. He also mentions that the introduction of technology and shifts in the world economy will contribute to the reasons for civilizations to clash. Because of the technological advancements, people now have a greater ability to move freely around the world are therefore more capable of reaching each other and spreading their ideals globally. These are also the reasons why there were so many conflicts between the Muslins and the Christians throughout the middle ages in the Middle East and in Spain. Just as Huntington predicts that modern day war will be a result of the aforementioned reasons, Muslims and Christians fought against each other in the Middle Ages because of their unwillingness to compromise on the basic differences of their religion and culture, and because of the changing political and economical world.

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Huntington goes on to suggest that along with this umbrella idea of conflict between civilizations; through economic, social, and cultural separations; there will be a divide in which countries with similar beliefs or ‘civilizations’ will stick together in war and conflict against other civilizations. Another key point to highlight is that he believed that in the post-cold war world, religion would become something that separates civilizations. In connection to Krauthamer’s viewpoint, Huntington’s explores the idea that with the West viewed as an enemy due to economic, military, and political strength, many civilizations who don't want to or cant join the west will compete with it. Huntington then suggests that the west learn to co-exist with other civilizations in order for it to remain the strongest and that it needs to accept religious and philysophical differences of other

Sam Huntington's claims that Western ideas do not resonate with civilizations from the East is incorrect. Huntington only acknowledges that Western ideas were developed by the West when ideas such as the separation of the church and state weren’t practiced by Western civilizations all throughout Western history, while also ignoring the history of Eastern civilizations having similar ideas, namely liberty.

Although Western culture has been defined by both Christian and secular values across the course of time, the West’s primary goal is to achieve economic supremacy, using Christian and secular philosophies, as well as colonization and technological innovation as means to achieve this goal.

Moises Naim doesn’t agree with Huntington’s theory of the clash of civilizations. As the graph shows that the number of deaths in Iraq, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Syria and Pakistan are higher than the rest of the globe and account for the most and they are committed by their own people not between, but within; Militant jihadists have killed more fellow Muslims than any other population of civilizations; centuries old conflicts between Shiites and Sunnis in Islam; more deaths due to terrorist attacks in America since 9/11 from white supremacists and other non-muslim extremists.

In 1996, Samuel P. Huntington published the book “The Clash of Civilizations and Remaking of World Order” where he suggested that the divisions in civilization will be a source of conflict after the Cold War (Huntington, 1996). This was contrary to public view as Americans were feeling optimistic and many believed the international sources of conflict with the U.S were minimal given Cold War victory. Popular sentiments during this Post-Cold War area are highlighted by the works of public intellectual Francis Fukuyama. Francis Fukuyama wrote a famous essay piece that he then developed into a book called “The End of History” where he suggested that Western liberalism had succeeded in international relations (Fukuyama, 1992). This was of course contrary to Samuel Huntington’s view. Huntington argued that civilizations were divided as Western, Islamic, Hindu, Chinese, Latin American, Japanese, and Slavic-Orthodox and this number of civilizations will produce cultural blocks due to their differences in values (Huntington, 1996). He stated that the Islamic civilization was one of the most concern for being amongst the most contrasting with the Western civilization. This argument has been proven due to the most recent terrorist attacks committed by Muslims in westernized countries. However, his book fails to analyze or address the divide that exist within the Islamic civilization. He fails to analyze the issues within

While reading this article I was able to iidentify ways Huntington talks about and uses religion in his assessment of world affairs, the composition of civilizations, and how civilizations interact with each other. Democracy is like religion it can be seen as a imperialistic venture if it is not grown at home. trying to convert a person is always a act of bigotry. Without the ideology of collectivism, the new enemy would then be based on culture or maybe even religion. I believe that Huntington identifies the civilization in the religious divisions because " civilization is a cultural entity."(2) All groups for example: ethnic groups, religious groups, regions, nationatilies, and villiages has distinct cultures at all different levels. However,

In 1993, Samuel Huntington, a teacher of political sciences at the University of Harvard, composed an article in the diary "Outside Affairs", which was very nearly happening to conspicuous significance for the field of International Relations. Huntington's article displayed a yearning target: the point was to give a hypothetical system to decipher the majority of the contentions that had broken out subsequent to the end of the twentieth century notwithstanding figure the presence of future clashes. Huntington asserts that the world has been in a non-ideological period since the end of the Cold War and that the part of the country state has been less and less critical. Thus, Huntington's expresses that, from now on, human advancements are to

Reacting to the theory of Fukuyama, Samuel P. Huntington resumed the expression "Clash of civilizations" in 1993 and speculates that it is mainly cultural and religious identities

So what exactly is the clash of civilizations? This was briefly addressed in Samuel Huntington’s paper “The clash of civilizations?”. In order to explain the term, let’s first look into what civilization is. Person does not simply get to choose the civilization he/she simply belongs to. Communists can become democrats and vice versa, but Russians can never become Americans or Arabs cannot become European. In the conflict between civilizations the question is “What are you?”, it is something given and cannot be changed. Conflicts between countries are inevitable and with the way things work it is just a matter of time, before one country would not be comfortable with what other country is doing. In that case, cultural characteristics and differences are less mutable and hence less easily compromised and resolved than political and economic ones [1]. The clash of civilizations often occurs on two levels. Micro-level is when small

Samuel Huntington, the author of the clash of the civilisations believes that the World will eventually divide in accordance with cultural lines, and not political lines. According to Huntington, “the thriving East Asian and Muslim societies will soon challenge Western dominance, and the United States being the World leader will need to reevaluate its policies on foreign invention and domestic immigration to remain a major player.” During the Cold War, the world was divided into the First, Second and Third Worlds. Huntington views these ties as insignificant now and states that the remaking of the World order will be based upon cultural similarity. The different thriving civilisations according to him today are the Western civilisation comprising of North America and Western Europe, the Muslim civilisation, the Orthodox Civilisation led by Russia, the Chinese civilisation, the Hindu civilisation, the Japanese civilisation, the Latin American civilisation and the African civilisation. Huntington’s proposition of the division of the World according to cultural lines has been backed by the use of various examples by him; examples of events that have taken place in the past.

In The Clash of civilizations Huntington argued that the future conflict would be different in the Post-Cold war era. In which different ideologies would not be the main reason for world problem but instead it would be because of the differences between cultures. The division of power would be placed in the civilizations that have the similar cultural norms. Huntington states that the “most dangerous enmities occur across fault lines between major civilizations” (20). This argued that foreign affairs cannot be peaceful or accommodating rather that these affairs go onto the basis of the influence of power based on different civilizations societal norms. The major societies that Huntington included were the western, Sinic, Islamic and Orthodox civilizations. The “ fault lines” between these societies