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by Samuel P. Huntington (Author)

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The classic study of post-Cold War international relations, more relevant than ever in the post-9/11 world, with a new foreword by Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Since its initial publication, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order has become a classic work of international relations and one of the most influential books ever written about foreign affairs. An insightful and powerful analysis of the forces driving global politics, it is as indispensable to our understanding of American foreign policy today as the day it was published. As former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski says in his new foreword to the book, it “has earned a place on the shelf of only about a dozen or so truly enduring works that provide the quintessential insights necessary for a broad understanding of world affairs in our time.”

Samuel Huntington explains how clashes between civilizations are the greatest threat to world peace but also how an international order based on civilizations is the best safeguard against war. Events since the publication of the book have proved the wisdom of that analysis. The 9/11 attacks and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have demonstrated the threat of civilizations but have also shown how vital international cross-civilization cooperation is to restoring peace. As ideological distinctions among nations have been replaced by cultural differences, world politics has been reconfigured. Across the globe, new conflicts—and new cooperation—have replaced the old order of the Cold War era.

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order explains how the population explosion in Muslim countries and the economic rise of East Asia are changing global politics. These developments challenge Western dominance, promote opposition to supposedly “universal” Western ideals, and intensify intercivilization conflict over such issues as nuclear proliferation, immigration, human rights, and democracy. The Muslim population surge has led to many small wars throughout Eurasia, and the rise of China could lead to a global war of civilizations. Huntington offers a strategy for the West to preserve its unique culture and emphasizes the need for people everywhere to learn to coexist in a complex, multipolar, muliticivilizational world.

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“The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order has become one of the most influential books of the new wartime era.”
—Patrick Healy, The Boston Globe

About the Author

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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Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster; a edition (August 2, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1451628978
ISBN-13: 978-1451628975
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1.1 x 9.2 inches
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Good read, but can save time just reading original article by the author.

November 2, 2016

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Must read to understand how the world works now. A little too long-winded. The original article by the other in "Foreign Affairs" is also available on Amazon, is a more concise read and covers all the main points equally memorably to this book.

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May 4, 2014

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The Clash of Civilizations became a key book in the discussion of future American Foreign Policy for all the right reasons. Huntington's argument is well-constructed and his predictions proved very prescient. Huntington could have coordinated with a psychologist or socialogist to right a second book discussing identity theory to bolster his argument but his work stands on its own as work of political science. I found his discussion of the Bosnian War interesting, as the war happened while I was still a child. He predicted the current crisis in Ukraine and described Russia's strategy with remarkable clarity. In his work, Huntington hypothesizes that the relative distribution of power and source of identity after the Cold War will spread to the 9 centers of civilization he describes in his book. The resulting shift will make the next century one of "fault line wars" between the civilization.

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Thought Provoking...

August 21, 2010

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Samuel P. Huntington's 1996 "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order" was the bestselling book version of a controversial "Foreign Affairs" article, a big-picture look at the world which dared to imagine that a bi-polar competition between communism and democracy/capitalism was about to be replaced by a multi-polar world of competing civilizations.

Huntington's book was thought-provoking and controversial. It denied the "End of History" thesis popular at the time. It refused to conflate modernization with westernization or democracy. It predicted that "civilizations" would replace ideologies as a basis of national and regional identity and as a source of international conflict, an affront to those expecting the imminent demise of the nation state.

From the perspective of 2010, Huntington did about as well as most predictors of new and different international orders. His concept of civilizations as an international organizing principle was imprecise, and some of his examples haven't held up. The nature of the current multi-polar world is driven by a number of causes and effects, of which "civilization" may be only one. On the other, Huntington predicted the (relative) decline of the West, pointed out the hazards to the nation state of unassimilated immigration, and identified some fault lines of competition and conflict around China and the Islamic world.

"The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order" is still worth a long look for students of international relations.

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Elena

Will change (or confirm) your understanding of the world'd dynimics

August 17, 2017

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I read it in the late early 2000. Probably the only political science book I have ever read. Blew my mind (it is hard to do, as I have been a voracious reader since the ago of 4). Written in 1994, it was jut as relevant in 2001, as it still is now - and I predict as it would be for many years to come. The original was given to me by a friend, and I just bought three more copies to give them to others.

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T. Stansmore

This was written more than 10 years ago, and ...

January 15, 2017

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This was written more than 10 years ago, and many of Mr. Huntington's predictions have already come true, especially in relation to China and Russia! Very insightful.
Not exactly "light reading" but a comprehensive perspective on history and current events couldn't be, could it?

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When Civilizations Clash

June 15, 2011

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Samuel Huntington has written a very provocative and engaging book that argues largely that conflicts in the post Cold War world will be based upon fault lines that occur within major civilizations throughout the world including the West, Sino, Islamic, Orthodox, among others. Though the theory is very beautifully laid out and elaborated on, it suffers from several faults. If one examines the global conflicts throughout the last twenty years, the theory holds for the most part (US verses Iraq/Afghanistan West vs. Islamic), The conflict in Sri Lanka, etc. But the simple fact is that conflicts still occur within the same civilizations Russia-Georgia both belong to the Orthodox. A further fault is Huntington's own admitted inability to place Africa and Latin America within a civilization. Still despite my criticisms it is a very intriguing theory that should be required reading for anyone interested in global conflict.

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Essential geopolitical reading

September 15, 2016

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This is essential reading for those that need a full picture of our unfolding reality. The ideas in this book show the mindset of the elites following the supposed end of the Cold War. You can't be serious about geopolitics without having consumed this classic work.

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DaleO

seems very prescient, in 2017

February 26, 2017

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I had heard of this book and its thesis some years back. Upon reading it now, it seems extraordinarily prescient. Well worth reading and pondering, whether you are liberal or conservative.

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