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Authors: Samuel P. Huntington
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. Huntington,
“The Clash of Civilizations?”
p. 40.
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. Brzezinski, pp. 126-27.
45
. Ronald Inglehart and Pippa Norris, “The True Clash of Civilizations,”
Foreign Policy
, No. 135 (March/April 2003), p. 67.
46
. ShibleyTelhami, “Manipulating U. S. Elections Is Not an Al-Qaeda Goal,”
Daily Star
, 26 July 2004.
47
. Kurtz, p. A1.
48
. Ibid.; Lori Robertson, “Whatever Happened to Afghanistan?”
American Journalism Review
, 25 (June/July 2003), 25.
49
. National Commission on Terrorist Attacks,
The 9/11 Commission Report
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2004), p. 375.
Philip Seib is the Lucius W. Nieman Professor of Journalism at Marquette University. He is a graduate of Princeton University and holds a J.D. degree from Southern Methodist University. Professor Seib is the author of numerous books, including
Headline Diplomacy: How News Coverage Affects Foreign Policy
,
The Global Journalist: News and Conscience in a World of Conflict
, and
Beyond the Front Lines: How the News Media Cover a World Shaped by War
.
The Clash of Civilizations
I
n the summer of 1993
Foreign Affairs
published an article entitled “The Clash of Civilizations?” by Samuel Huntington. No article, according to the editors of that distinguished journal, has generated more discussion since George Kennan’s “X” article on containment in the 1940s. Now, Mr. Huntington expands on his article, explores further the issues he raised then, and develops many new penetrating and controversial analyses. In the article, he posed the question whether conflicts between civilizations would dominate the future of world politics. In the book, he gives his answer, showing not only 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 in the past few years have confirmed Mr. Huntington’s earlier judgments. Increasingly, people define themselves on the basis of ancestry, language, religion, and customs. Today, in the post-Cold War world, the critical distinctions between people are not primarily ideological or economic; they are cultural. World politics is being reconfigured along cultural lines, with new patterns of conflict and cooperation replacing those of the Cold War. The hot spots in world politics are on the “fault lines” between civilizations: witness the fighting in Bosnia, Chechnya, the Transcaucasus, Central Asia, Kashmir, the Middle East, Tibet, Sri Lanka, Sudan, and many other places.
Mr. Huntington 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. Mr. Huntington sets forth 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, multicivilizational world.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
is an insightful and powerful analysis of the forces driving global politics today and into the next century. It is sure to be one of the most talked about books of the decade.
Samuel P. Huntington
is Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University, where he is also director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. He was director of security planning for the National Security Council in the Carter Administration, founder and co-editor of
Foreign Policy,
and president of the American Political Science Association. He is the author of many books and scholarly articles.
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“Sam Huntington, one the West’s most eminent political scientists, presents a challenging framework for understanding the realities of global politics in the next century.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
is one of the most important books to have emerged since the end of the Cold War.”
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ased 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.
“An intellectual tour de force: bold, imaginative, and provocative. A seminal work that will revolutionize our understanding of international affairs.”
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“The book is studded with insights, flashes of rare brilliance, great learning, and in particular, an ability to see the familiar in a new and provocative way.”
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“A benchmark for informed speculation on those always fascinating questions: Just where are we in history? What hidden hand is controlling our destiny? . . . A searching reflection on our global state.”
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SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
is the Albert
J.
Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University, where he is also the director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic 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. He is the author of many books and scholarly articles. Huntington lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Huntington, Samuel P.
The clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order /
Samuel P. Huntington.
p. cm.
Includes index.
1. World politics—1989- 2. Post-communism. 3. Civilization, Modern—1950- I. Title.
D860.H86 1996
909.82’9—dc20 96-31492
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