Huntington's Argument And Reason For The Cold War Summary

1. What is Huntington 's argument (known as the thesis) and reason for writing the essay? Huntington started with a hypothesis about how the end of the cold war was the start of a new type of civilization which means it will come with new types of conflicts. Huntington’s argument was meant to explain in great detail the difference in civilizations between the “west against the rest”. Huntington explains that there are two different types of civilizations. These are the most developed and most economically rich countries which he explains is the western nation that includes The United States and our allies. The rest that he talked about in the book is everyone else including the Soviet Union, Middle Eastern countries, and the Asian countries. …show more content…
He talked about the differences between what started World War one and what started World war two and it just made since because that is all that would be left. The first World war started because one country’s leader was killed in another foreign country. That was the “reason” that everyone says started the war, but he explains the real thing that started WWI is different, it was a way for Germany to take control of colonial Africa. As a result of this war they thought Britain would stay neutral while they attacked France and other British allies. Well that was not the case Britain took their alliances seriously and helped their allies. WWII was the result of the ending of WWI. Germany’s leaders and the citizens were extremely mad about what the triple entente did to them. They destroyed the nation of Germany, they had to get rid of most of their military plus they had to pay the winning countries back for all of the destruction that was caused. After World War two the only thing that would be left to cause a global war would be religious differences. He believed that this would happen in the middle eastern countries and I believe that this is coming to fruition, or in some realities has already happened to some …show more content…
Used process of elimination on what would cause the next global way. We have already had war in Europe and parts of Asia and even in Africa. The only major areas that at this point in time that has been accustomed to a major war is the middle east. He also explained what would most likely cause this major conflict which would be cultural and religious differences. This would later be proved to be correct. I believe the middle east has always been a volatile region and the west can only put up with so much horrific activities before we have to step in and try to make things right. I believe this matches right with the culture reason that Huntington was explaining in this article. I agree that he has hit on an extremely important issue that has yet to come to full fruition yet. We have had major wars in the middle east but we haven’t come to the world war three which I do believe is going to occur in the not to distant future. You can call me a conspiracy theorist but I believe that the the Islamic State in all the middle eastern countries will become in total control of these countries and will have the complete control of that countries military. The ISIS ideals believe that anyone that doesn’t believe the same way as them should be killed, and this is going to cause World War three. I believe that if Samuel Huntington was alive today and saw what ISIS has become he would agree with me and other History