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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 As ideological distinctions among nations have been replaced by cultural differences, world politics has been reconfigured.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 thesis of this provocative and potentially important book is the increasing threat of violence arising from renewed conflicts between countries and cultures that base their traditions on religious faith and dogma. This argument moves past the notion of ethnicity to examine the growing influence of a handful of major cultures--Western, Eastern Orthodox, Latin American, Islamic, Japanese, Chinese, Hindu, and African--in current struggles across the globe. Samuel P. Huntington, a political scientist at Harvard University and foreign policy aide to President Clinton, argues that policymakers should be mindful of this development when they interfere in other nations' affairs. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Huntington here extends the provocative thesis he laid out in a recent (and influential) Foreign Affairs essay: we should view the world not as bipolar, or as a collection of states, but as a set of seven or eight cultural "civilizations"?one in the West, several outside it?fated to link and conflict in terms of that civilizational identity. Thus, in sweeping but dry style, he makes several vital points: modernization does not mean Westernization; economic progress has come with a revival of religion; post-Cold War politics emphasize ethnic nationalism over ideology; the lack of leading "core states" hampers the growth of Latin America and the world of Islam. Most controversial will be Huntington's tough-minded view of Islam. Not only does he point out that Muslim countries are involved in far more intergroup violence than others, he argues that the West should worry not about Islamic fundamentalism but about Islam itself, "a different civilization whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power." While Huntington notes that the war in Bosnia hardened into an ethno-religious clash, he downplays the possibility that such splintering could have been avoided. Also, his fear of multiculturalism as a source of American weakness seems unconvincing and alarmist. Huntington directs the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (August 2, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1451628978
ISBN-13: 978-1451628975
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It may be useful to extrapolate to future events as well

ByShirley T Fangon March 20, 2016

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Cogent, incisive analysis of the post Cold War power structure among world civilizations. Huntington helps me understand current events, even when the book was written 20 years earlier. It may be useful to extrapolate to future events as well. Highly entertaining, and cerebral read.

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Thought Provoking...

ByHMS WarspiteTOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICEon 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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Essential geopolitical reading

ByAmazon Customeron 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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Indispensible. Prescient. A "must read" book.

ByJ. R. Batchelderon April 17, 2015

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Samuel Huntington was a pure genius who was also a very productive academic and writer. If you have any interest in global affairs you should read this book and then follow up with "World Order" by Henry Kissinger.

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Terrifyingly prescient

ByChip Crainon February 13, 2017

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The Clash of Civilizations is somewhat dated but still predictive of the future of the world we live in. It is a must read for anyone wanting to go deeper into what is happening in our society and the world st large than simple sound bites from our political and media machines.

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great!

ByAurora Damianon May 29, 2017

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As a political science student at USC I find it somewhat difficult to get comprehensive annalises of overall global trends. Many authors simply single out one ideology or symptom and proceed to discuss it as if it exists in a vacuum. Huntington's book is the only one to date that is not only comprehensive, but clear and rational. You do not have to agree with his conclusions to love this book. It is simply the best, concise, annalitical overview of world events yet printed.

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As profound as Marx's "Capital"

ByNemion April 29, 2017

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I am sure, as time passes, this book will be regarded as one of the greatest and most important books written in human history. With great clarity Huntington explains some universal and indisputable laws of how human society functions. This book is as important to study in order to understand ways of states and nations as Marx's "Capital" in order to understand economics.

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Amazing Book

ByNinos Youkhanaon January 17, 2017

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One of the amazing book of the century. It must be read. And if should be a core requirement in schools.

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It's especially great to read this book with the benefit of hindsight, when many movements predicted by Huntington have realized. The best book I've read in years.

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