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Based on the author's seminal article in Foreign Affairs, Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order is a provocative and prescient analysis of the state of world politics after the fall of communism. In this incisive work, the renowned political scientist explains how "civilizations" have replaced nations and ideologies as the driving force in global politics today and offers a brilliant analysis of the current climate and future possibilities of our world's volatile political culture.

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This book attracted attention because of its thesis that the "clashes of civilizations are the greatest threat to world peace." However, Huntington's work is important here for his second chapter on the nature and study of civilizations (with its excellent bibliographic sources), and his last chapter on the future of the West and other "core" civilizations.
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Francis Fukyama The Wall Street Journal The book is dazzling in its scope and grasp of the intricacies of contemporary global politics. -- Review

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Samuel P. Huntington was the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University, where he was also the director of the John M. Olin Institute for Stategic Studies and the chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. He was the director of security planning for the National Security Council in the Carter administration, the founder and coeditor of Foreign Policy, and the president of the American Political Science Association.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster; First Edition (January 28, 1998)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0684844419
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0684844411
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 9.5 inches

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Samuel P. Huntington (1927-2008) was the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard and former chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. He authored and edited more than dozen books.

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Hanseung Paik

Describing vividly the 21st century from a day of past

Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2023

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I was surprised how this book that was written almost a generation ago is delining present world so vividly. Civilization framework of international politics must be such a effectual tool. And it was impressive that if another world war could be taken place, the fianl winner would be global south countries.

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A REVOLUTIONARY TREATISE, NOT HEEDED

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Reading this 1996 publication after 9/11/2001, the onset of the War on Terror and the US experiment in "regime change" and "nation building," one cannot but be amazed at the accuracy of its prognostication and the degree to which its advice was not heeded. The basic thesis of the book is that it is impossible to impose Western political, religious and cultural values on non-Western countries. A most astonishing proof of this thesis is the first Gulf War of 1990, waged by the United States against Iraq. To Western eyes it was an entirely just war, backed up by a coalition of Arab states, which succeeded in stopping Saddam Hussein from invading a weaker sovereign state, Kuwait. But, as Huntington shows, it was roundly condemned by public opinion in the Middle East as an imperialist intervention in domestic affairs, a threatening show of military force and a war of the West against all Arabs and all Muslims. The good war, even altruistic war, backfired. Undertaken to protect the life and property of an Arab state, it provoked fear and hatred in the Arab world and empowered the defeated aggressor, whose prestige gained in neighboring states.

On the basis of such examples, Huntington draws the painful conclusion that we (as Westerners) cannot universalize rights and principles that we hold dear and apply them to other peoples, governments and states that do not observe them. To do so, he warns, is false, immoral and dangerous. He asserts toward the close of his book: "Western intervention in the affairs of other civilizations is probably the single most dangerous source of instability and potential global conflict in a multicivilizational world." He advances an "abstention rule": that core states of one civilization abstain from intervening in the conflicts of other civilizations. He proposes that a constant seeking for common values, practices and institutions among different peoples, states and civilizations is the key to peace and world order in the realignment of nations taking place after the end of the Cold War.

THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS was a bestselling book that was widely discussed and debated throughout America--in the popular media, in the halls of academe and in the chambers of government. Henry Kissinger endorsed it. Zbigniew Brzezinski called it revolutionary. Presumably every reader of FOREIGN AFFAIRS, where Huntington's initial statement was published, studied the book. This means all the world analysts in the Department of State, the Department of Defense and the Cabinet. It is hard to imagine another publication that had a greater chance of influencing US foreign policy. And yet, as the US prepared to go to war for a second time against Iraq, then went to war and got stuck, every single argument, proof and piece of advice packed into its nearly 400 pages was forgotten or ignored. All that was left was a catch-phrase, "clash of civilizations," which was denied and almost always misused.

Contrary to one of the reviews on this page, there is nothing simplistic about this book. The concepts of "civilization," "core state" and "fault-line war" are put forward with precise definitions, reasoned exposition and pertinent historical examples buttressed by statistical data and a full scholarly apparatus. Balkan politics are discussed in exacting detail, Chinese and Central Asian politics as well. Islamic militancy is examined with unflinching objectivity. Distinctions are drawn between domestic multiculturalism and foreign universalism which are hairsplitting, but crucial. The writing abounds in classifications and qualifications; often tedious, but often capped with a memorable maxim: "The great beneficiaries of the war of civilizations are those civilizations who abstained from it."

For me, the discussions of post-Soviet Russia and Eastern Europe are most instructive: "People could no longer identify as Communists, Soviet citizens or Yugoslavs, and desperately needed to find new identities. They found them in the old standbys of ethnicity and religion. The repressive but peaceful order of states committed to the proposition that there is no god was replaced by the violence of people committed to different gods." The presentation of civilizational alignments in the Afghan war of 1979-1989, the Tadzhikistan war of 1992 and the Chechen wars beginning in 1994 provides the background for ongoing conflicts today. The analysis of Sino-Russian politics and prospects brings us right up to the moment.

The failure of this book to prevent the very thing it warned against is very troubling and raises questions about the real impact of public discourse today. No doubt it is too much to ask power-mongers to re-read it, but for us mere mortals it is essential. We may not be able to change the world, but we at least want to understand it.

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The author, a political scientist at Harvard University, argues that the central feature of post-Cold War international relations will be conflicts among "civilizations". Civilizations, according to the author, are cultural identities that are typically larger than ethnic or racial groups. Frequently, civilizations are synonymous with major religions. The author sets forth seven major civilizations, and is open to the possibility of nine civilizations: (1) Japanese, (2) Sino-Confucian, (3) Hindu-Indian, (4) Buddhist (which goes virtually undiscussed in the book), (5) Islamic, (6) Orthodox (centered around Russia), (7) Western (Catholic and Protestant), plus the more uncertain (8) Latin American (which may be, or may become, a sub-type of Western civilization) and (9) African (which may become centered around South Africa).

I find the author's thesis unconvincing for three reasons. First, nation-states remain the locus of international relations, and accordingly I find realism the most explanatory of international relations theories. At times, the author appears to acknowledge this: Orthodox Georgia has tense relations with Orthodox Russia, Confucian Vietnam has tense relations with Confucian China, Western Australia is contemplating pivoting to Confucian China, and Latin American Mexico is contemplating pivoting to Western United States. None of these situations are explained by civilizations theory, but all are explained by realism.

Second, when it comes to culture, ethnicity matters more civilization. Western Czechs and Western Slovaks split into separate nations, Orthodox Ukrainians fight to the death to be independent from Orthodox Russians, Islamic Punjabis slaughter Islamic Bengalis, and Islamic Arabs and Islamic Turks bomb Islamic Kurdish villages.

And third, at least within the West, education / intelligence is an increasing divisive factor even within nations and ethnic groups. As of the mid-2020s, politics in many Western countries consists of a left-wing party, supported by white cognitive elites and non-whites, and a right-wing party, supported by whites with less cognitive ability. And in the Western societies that are better at assimilating immigrants -- in particular, the UK and the USA -- even non-whites have begun to split along cognitive lines.

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Michael Murphey

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Reviewed in Canada on April 17, 2023

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A modern classic, which when paired with Mearsheimer's Tragedy of Great Power Politics, and Spengler's Decline of the West outlines a set of paradigms for our news.

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Elliot Alderson

Excelente libro

Reviewed in Mexico on January 16, 2020

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El libro es excelente; llegó en perfectas condiciones y mucho antes de lo que se indicaba originalmente. Sin duda, Huntington fue un visionario y se adelantó a muchas cosas que fueron ocurriendo y que confirmaron sus hipótesis. Lo único malo del autor es que me parece demasiado anglosajón en su forma de plantear las cosas, y se nota una cierta actitud racista hacia los latinoamericanos. En fin, con ello confirma que la lucha de civilizaciones es más real de lo que se plantea en el papel. Es un libro obligado para quien quiera ahondar en el mundo de la geopolítica.

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Samved Iyer.

Incisive, but somewhat contrary to what it implies

Reviewed in India on January 6, 2021

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Creditably, Huntington does not assume a tone of finality with regard to his proposition. He notes that a clash of civilizations is highly improbable, but not impossible. To a commodious extent, cultural identities have indeed assumed significance. But, his own book muses on the possibility of a conflict within cleft states i.e. such states as harbour numerically significant communities, each claiming its origins from a different civilization, owing to which there is apt to be tension and destabilization. That, to my mind, is more probable than a clash between or amongst civilizations. Worthy of reading, nonetheless.

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Worthy of time and efforts!

Reviewed in Japan on August 11, 2023

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Very broad perspective is really impressive.

It is interesting how to analyze Japans strategic role and ability in Big Politics of the world from the West.

Jean René

Jocrisse n'a pas dû le lire

Reviewed in France on March 11, 2014

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Cet ouvrage fondamental, publié pour la première fois dès 1993 (bien avant le 11 Septembre 2001),puis mis à jour lors des éditions ultérieures, est d'un grand intérêt et d'une grande pertinence. Une idée force de Huntington est que la civilisation occidentale n'est pas universelle (ni éternelle), et qu'il serait erroné de vouloir en faire un produit d'exportation contrairement à ce que s'imaginent de nombreux rêveurs occcidentaux contemporains. (Qu'on songe aux affirmations péremptoires nasillant sur tous les tons les bienfaits qu'apporteraient "peace and democracy in Afghanistan").
Huntington démontre que ce qui a pu séduire (les asiatiques, le monde musulman, etc.) dans le modèle occidental, c'est le bien-être économique et la technologie, mais ce ne sont pas le modèle de société, les valeurs de démocratie, de tolérance et de respect de l'individu. L'accession au premier n'entraîne pas l'adoption de l'autre, et même bien au contraire, une fois que les peuples ont amélioré leurs conditions de vie et rattrapé leur retard, ils prennent en détestation ce qui leur apparaît (à tort ou à raison) comme l'impérialisme occidental. Ainsi, les terroristes ne sont-ils pas des illettrés, mais des gens éduqués parfois dans les meilleures universités occidentales, qui maîtrisent les techniques, internet, le pilotage des avions...
Au vu de la longue liste des conflits violents qui par presque toute la planète mettent en cause les musulmans contre à peu près tout le monde (occidentaux, Chinois, Indiens, Russes, pays africains...), il faut être un singulier Jocrisse pour croire et affirmer contre l'évidence même et le simple bon sens que l'Islam n'est pas incompatible avec la démocratie... mais ce sujet est à lui seul chez nous source de polémiques virulentes.
Le seul reproche que je ferai à Huntington est son réflexe anti-russe bien américain, qui lui fait considérer avec méfiance le monde orthodoxe comme distinct de la civilisation occidentale. Faut-il y voir de l'ignorance ou un attachement à un modèle issu de la guerre froide?
Les choses changeront j'en suis certain, elles ont déjà commencé à changer.
En tout cas, l'apport de ce livre controversé chez nous est considérable et a fait date!!

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