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Huntington wrote The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order in 1993 for the publication Foreign Affairs magazine. In this article, he is trying to point out that the world politics was moving towards a new page where there will be future conflict would occur between civilizations based on cultural differences. According to Huntington, these cultural fault lines were divided up between eight civilizations: ?Western, Confucian, Japanese, Islamic, Hindu, Slavic-Orthodox, Latin American and possibly African??. The thesis of the article was revised and expounded upon and eventually turned into Huntington?s influential writing, ?The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order? in 1996. The new political lens, that Huntington offered up for us to view future tensions, moved beyond the Cold War where ideological divisions between two, non-nation state, super powers defined conflict. This new perspective showcased tensions between entities that were defined by …show more content…
Huntington realized that overlap within cultural and civilization boundaries occur and that ?all have distinct cultures at different levels of cultural heterogeneity?. However, according to Huntington, a civilization is what a group of individuals belongs to at the broadest level of identification in which they intensely identify with. Lastly, Huntington asserts that the West versus Islam was one of the preeminent, emerging cultural clashes that had been observable for the last 1,300 years and essentially has become ?more virulent? due to the Persian Gulf War, which began in 1990. His view on this particular cultural clash mirrors Bernard Lewis? views from his essay, ?The Roots of Muslim Rage? published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1990. Ultimately, Huntington adds a new post-Cold War perspective on future conflict that academics, politicians, and military leaders can use to stimulate
Huntington wrote The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order in 1993 for the publication Foreign Affairs magazine. In this article, he is trying to point out that the world politics was moving towards a new page where there will be future conflict would occur between civilizations based on cultural differences. According to Huntington, these cultural fault lines were divided up between eight civilizations: ?Western, Confucian, Japanese, Islamic, Hindu, Slavic-Orthodox, Latin American and possibly African??. The thesis of the article was revised and expounded upon and eventually turned into Huntington?s influential writing, ?The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order? in 1996. The new political lens, that Huntington offered up for us to view future tensions, moved beyond the Cold War where ideological divisions between two, non-nation state, super powers defined conflict. This new perspective showcased tensions between entities that were defined by …show more content…
Huntington realized that overlap within cultural and civilization boundaries occur and that ?all have distinct cultures at different levels of cultural heterogeneity?. However, according to Huntington, a civilization is what a group of individuals belongs to at the broadest level of identification in which they intensely identify with. Lastly, Huntington asserts that the West versus Islam was one of the preeminent, emerging cultural clashes that had been observable for the last 1,300 years and essentially has become ?more virulent? due to the Persian Gulf War, which began in 1990. His view on this particular cultural clash mirrors Bernard Lewis? views from his essay, ?The Roots of Muslim Rage? published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1990. Ultimately, Huntington adds a new post-Cold War perspective on future conflict that academics, politicians, and military leaders can use to stimulate