The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

By Samuel P. Huntington

Subjects: Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie, Kulturkonflikt, Politique et culture, Civilisation, Weltordnung, World politics, 1989-, Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Kulturkreis, D860 .h86 1996, Societa, Ost-West-Konflikt, Post-comunismo, Civilización moderna, D860 .h86 2011, Civilisation moderne, Politics, Relations internationales, 909.82/9, Civilization, modern--1950-, Sec. 20, Histoire, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Politique mondiale, Politics and culture, World politics--1989-, Multiculturalism, Kulturkreis, Civilization, Culture et relations internationales, World politics, International cooperation, open_syllabus_project, Weltpolitik, Cultura e societa, Yan jiu, Civilization--history, Guo ji zheng zhi, Internationale orde, Civilization, Modern, Política mundial, Civilization, modern, 1950-, Storia, Conflit culturel, Post-communism, Internationaler Konflikt, International relations, Postkommunismus, Societa e politica, Postcommunisme, Modern Civilization, Culture conflict, Internationale Politik, Cultuurconflicten, 1989-1996, Zukunft, Internationale betrekkingen, Weltreligion, Mondialisation, D860 h953c 1996

Description: From the Preface... In the summer of 1993 the journal Foreign Affairs published an article of mine titled "The Clash of Civilizations?". That article, according to the Foreign Affairs editors, stirred up more discussion in three years than any other article they had published since the 1940s. It certainly stirred up more debate in three years than anything else I have written. The responses and comments on it have come from every continent and scores of countries. People were variously impressed, intrigued, outraged, frightened, and perplexed by my argument that the central and most dangerous dimension of the emerging global politics would be conflict between groups from differing civilizations. Whatever else it did, the article struck a nerve in people of every civilization. Given the interest in, misrepresentation of, and controversy over the article, it seemed desirable for me to explore further the issues it raised. One constructive way of posing a question is to state an hypothesis. The article, which had a generally ignored question mark in its title, was an effort to do that. This book is intended to provide a fuller, deeper, and more thoroughly documented answer to the article's question. I here attempt to elaborate, refine, supplement, and, on occasion, qualify the themes set forth in the article and to develop many ideas and cover many topics not dealt with or touched on only in passing in the article.