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Product Details Binding Paperback Dewey Decimal Number 909.829 EAN 9780684844411 ISBN 0684844419 Manufacturer Simon & Schuster Number Of Items 1 Number Of Pages 368 Publication Date January 28, 1998 Publisher Simon & Schuster Availability Usually ships in 24 hours Product Description Based 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. 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. 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 book attracted attention because of its thesis that the 'clashes of civilizations are the greatest threat to world peace.' However, Huntington's work is important here for his second chapter on the nature and study of civilizations (with its excellent bibliographic sources), and his last chapter on the future of the West and other 'core' civilizations. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. The Huntington argument that the West should stop intervening in civilizational conflicts it doesn't understand makes a powerful claim that internationalists cannot easily ignore. The question is whether there remain certain human interests that all civilizations had better endorse for our common survival. For those attentive to foreign affairs, durable political analyst Huntington is certain to excite debate, and not only for his concluding scenario for World War III, the post^-cold war version. That could happen if the U.S. mishandles an increasingly xenophobic and truculent China: remember, a Chinese officer during the latest Taiwan crisis reminded the U.S. that China can nuke Los Angeles. Chinese assertiveness, Huntington argues, arises out of its felt grievances against a relatively weakening West, a phenomenon of resentment and temptation existing wherever the West has contact with another civilization. After China, the gravest challenge to the West, Huntington maintains, is resurgent Islamic identity, and to those believing only violent radicals hate the West, the author asserts 'fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate otherwise.' So what to do? Atop Huntington's agenda is that the West should give up universalizing its values and rather ensure their survival within a stronger European-North American alliance to offset the emerging Sino-Islamic grouping. A set of sharp, controversial theses and a coherent message make this a critical current affairs book. Gilbert Taylor The thrust of Huntington's argument rejects the notion of a world inevitably succumbing to Western values. To the contrary, he argues, the West's influence in the world is waning because of growing resistance to its values and the reassertion by non-Westerners of their own cultures. The book successfully shifts the discussion of the post-cold-war world from ideology, ethnicity, politics, and economics to culture--and especially to the religious basis of culture, a subject generally ignored in contemporary political science. Huntington is right to warn us against facile generalizations about the world becoming one; to point out the resilience of civilizations to foreign influences; and to underscore the ease with which religious values become secularized. Though he denies it, the political implication of Huntington's thesis is isolationism: the recommendation that the West in general, and the United States in particular, refrain from conflict with other civilizations as well as involvement in their internal quarrels. His advice for the Western powers is to draw closer together, maintain their strength, and, above all, recognize 'that Western intervention in the affairs of other civilizations is probably the single most dangerous source of instability and potential global conflict in a multicivilizational world.' Zbigniew BrzezinskiAn intellectual tour de force: bold, imaginative, and provocative. A seminal work that will revolutionize our understanding of international affairs. Henry A. KissingerSam Huntington, one of the West's most eminent political scentists, presents a challenging framework for understanding the realitites 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. Richard BernsteinThe New York TimesA 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. Michael ElliottThe Washington Post Book WorldThe 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. Francis FukyamaThe Wall Street JournalThe book is dazzling in its scope and grasp of the intricacies of contemporary global politics. Wang GungwuThe National InterestThis is what is so stunning about The Clash of Civilizations: It is not just about the future, but may actually help to shape it. Francis Fukyama The Wall Street Journal The book is dazzling in its scope and grasp of the intricacies of contemporary global politics. Based 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. 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 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. He is the author of many books and scholarly articles. Huntington lives in Boston, Massachusetts. 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Read More Rating - Confirmed predictions First published in 1996, this scholarly discussion of future international relations has been a classic from the beginning and will remain so for decades to come. From among the seven most important civilizations the author selected three, which may collide in conflict. Thus, in Moslem eyes Western culture is decadent in various ways and therefore utterly unacceptable. The current resurgence of the Islamic civilization is seen as an evolution no less significant than the Reformation or Marxism, demanding society's complete ... Read More Rating - Engrossing analysis of world order This excellent book provides the reader with a view of the world based on civilizations - past, present and future. If you cannot find time to read the entire book, read the last chapter. It describes creditable circumstances under with a third world war could ignite. Rating - A decent picture of world politics with some flaws This book gives a decent picture of the current political situation of the world. Especially w.r.t 9/11 and the ongoing clash between the west and Islam the books seems like prophecy. The author is also right on the money when he claims and explains the bloody borders of Islam and I wonder why there is any dispute about this. More analysis of how Christianity and Islam spread after conception would have been insightful. Yugoslav wars are analyzed quite well and I would like to find a refutation of this analysis by ... Read More Rating - Here goes the next 50 years The author delivers a great future cast rarely found in the historian world. This made the book great. While there is plenty to find out about the past, I always wondered what would the greatest historians of the world think of the future. Due their meticulous attitude few of them venture to speculate on facts that are not checked and double checked. Well, Samuel Huntington, is not that kind of historian. He develops on the future of the two main civilizations and the possible results. While I found him a bit too skeptical on ... Read More see more reviews See all books by author Samuel P. Huntington

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