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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order Paperback – January 28, 1998
| Samuel P. Huntington (Author) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
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- Print length368 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherSimon & Schuster
- Publication dateJanuary 28, 1998
- Dimensions6 x 1 x 9.5 inches
- ISBN-100684844419
- ISBN-13978-0684844411
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- Publisher : Simon & Schuster; 1st Printing edition (January 28, 1998)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 368 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0684844419
- ISBN-13 : 978-0684844411
- Item Weight : 14.3 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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This book pulls no punches and has been widely condemned amongst left-wing ideologues. Nevertheless, it details a world where democracy is under scrutiny and totalitarianism gets a free pass. In minimising the existential threat to the West of two civilisations that seek to dominate, are Tolerance, Multiculturalism, Equality and concerns about Human Rights, all that the West has to offer in what amounts to a fundamental clash of civilisations? Are we facing the end of democracy as appeasement gains ground?
In 1996 Samuel P. Huntingdon expanded his article into this book. Sixteen years later how has this book aged? " The End of History " may not have happened, but the "Clash of Civilisations" still seems relevant.
"The Clash of Civilisations" is not an idée fixe. The author proposes his model as a useful tool to replace the previous bi-polar one used during the Cold War. He is careful to present it as a working model that should be applied with all the caveats that present themselves in a real, complex world. In 1996 he defined his civilisations as these broad cultural entities: Western, Latin American, (sub-Saharan, non-Islamic) African, Islamic, Sinic (Chinese), Hindu, Orthodox (mainly Russian), Buddhist and Japanese.
In 1995 the author stated that the clashes of the future ". . . are likely to arise from the interaction of Western arrogance, Islamic intolerance and Sinic assertiveness". Modernism, he said, is universal, but modernism is not the same as Westernism. The West was a civilisation before it became modern and the same process is happening with other civilisations. Islam can modernise but it does not have to Westernise. The author thought that the future is a world which is more modern, but less Western. Many will disagree, but many will disagree because they think that modernism and Westernism are the same. That they are not the same is the author's point.
Today, Russia is only superficially western and the Han Chinese Empire has continued to rise; Hindustan has kept a low profile. The American Empire has overreached itself and continues to project power, but on borrowed money. Dominating all this is the economic implosion of the western financial system, the clash with Islam and the clash within Islam. The multi-polar, multi-civilisation world continues.
To me, the most interesting point is the continuing role of religions in defining supranational boundaries. Rather than getting fanatical at spreading our own faith, or going down the Dawkins route of rubbishing all religion, we need to get used to this basic fact.
It's a shame this wasn't on the bookshelves in the White House and Downing Street in 2003.






