Samuel Phillips Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations? Multilateralism in the Light of Cultural Tensions Table of Contents Table of Contents p. 2 1. Introduction p. 3 2. To what Extent does Culture Constitute a Unifying Force? p. 3 3. Contesting the Clash of Civilizations: Genocide and Multiculturalism p. 5 4. The Applicability of Huntington: Unity in Diversity p. 6 List of References p
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Samuel Huntington‚ The Clash of Civilizations?: Islam and the West When taking another glance at Huntington’s “Clash of Civilizations?”‚ the provocative nature of his arguments and the fervent scholarly debate that followed are hardly surprising. Although‚ for myself‚ I remain troubled by one important question. Is Huntington completely wrong‚ as many propose‚ about a rising conflict between the nations of Islam and those of the West in the post cold war era? Huntington contends that the future
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The End of History and the Clash of Civilization written by Jasmine Liu "The End of History" is an essay written by Francis Fukuyama in 1989 and published in the international affairs journal The National Interest. In the essay‚ Fukuyama argued that the advent of Western liberal democracy may signal the endpoint of humanity’s sociocultural evolution and the final form of human government. The highlights of the essay are listed as follows. Firstly‚ Fukuyama held the view that history should be viewed
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Carlos Fuentes is against the acquisition that Samuel P. Huntington brings up about immigration. In which Huntington focuses on the Hispanic immigration. Huntington brings up to main point in the article in which was that illegal immigrants costs government in money with education‚ welfare‚ law enforcement‚ and other costs. The second point is that Hispanic immigrants born in the United States would be less willing to follow American influence‚ and that Hispanic population in America will grow more
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Who was Samuel P. Huntington? Huntington was born in New York City and graduated as a student from Yale university with distinction at the age of 18. He served the U.S. army and earned his Ph.D. at Harvard university‚ where he also started his career as a professor. His first major book was The soldier and the state‚ which is regarded today as the most influential book on American military relations. During the late seventies‚ he was the White house co-ordinator of security planning for the NSC
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Samuel Huntington has made famous his thesis "the clash of civilizations"‚ which was developed in his article in Foreign Affairs in 1993 and in the book that followed‚ in which the author expanded his thesis and reaffirmed the validity of his theory after the success and controversy that followed the publication of his article. In fact‚ the “civilizational” approach of conflicts today is now intrinsically linked to a comprehensive theory of international relations‚ which Samuel Huntington has developed
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“The Clash of Civilisations?” vs. “The Clash of Ignorance” Samuel P. Huntington’s rather lengthy article “The Clash of Civilisations?” manages to cover a lot of ground (Huntington‚ 1993). It addresses how different civilisations interact externally and internally‚ devoting the most space to the “Muslim” vs. the “West” interaction. On the other hand Edward W. Said’s “The Clash of Ignorance” takes a direct aim at Huntington’s opinions and expands upon them by presenting his own views of the after
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Fukuyama‚ Huntington‚ Barber‚ Katzenstein‚ and Keohane all have diverse observations on the contemporary world situation. By comparing cultures‚ government systems and the general lifestyle of different groups‚ each of the essays attempts at summarizing the present-day day global climate. Although there is no one view that can completely capture the contemporary world state‚ Barber’s Jihad vs. McWorld paints the most precise picture of the contemporary world. Fukuyama makes an admirable attempt
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Supporters of this hypothesis would claim that the protestors’ contradicting Huntington’s “cultural identity” proposition and provese that the Arab spring refutes the clash of civilizations. “The Arab uprising is led by…all strata of the population‚ including non-Muslims…the Islamic Identity of the Arab world is‚ somehow‚ not in the limelight” (Kamali‚ 2012). Emphasies on human rights and human dignity‚ rather than Islamic identity‚ were is the focus in the uprisings. It was claimed that most of
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Francis Fukuyama and Samuel Huntington are two of the most controversial and influential modern political theorists of our times. Fukuyama’s book‚ The End of History and the Last Man‚ and Huntington’s book‚ The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order‚ pose two very conflicting theories on international relations. In this paper I will summarize and compare/contrast the two theories. Both theories‚ written since the fall of communism and updated since the first gulf war‚ have been
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