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    Based on The Clash of Civilization by Samuel P. Huntington, it is believed that the future of this world is on the basis of civilization which can be subdivided into culture and religion. The future conflicts, arguments and differences are basically on the level of human fundamental component itself which is civilization. There will be no longer conflict about economy, nationality or ideas, but the core of those aspects. This future projection is made based on the transformation process that entire human civilization had gone through and the indicator is war. Generally, historically proven, the war in this world had changed from the fight between the rulers to the fights between nationalities then to the fights between ideologies and also to…

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    Samuel P. Huntington writes his book the Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the New World in five parts. The book is about civilizations development in values, ideologies, religion, and culture. In part one Huntington creates a post war civilization map where the world is separated into nine civilizations. The first is the western civilization that consist of north america and europe. The second Latin America which was central and south america. Third African which was only the…

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    Clash of Civilizations In 1993, Samuel P. Huntington, an influential American conservative political scientist, adviser and academic, published an article in the Foreign Affairs – “Clash of Civilizations?”, which was subsequently published as a book in 1996, discussing a theory that in the post-Cold War world, people’s cultural and religious identities will be the primary source of conflict. Huntington begins the article stating that the world politics is entering a new phase, he means that, in…

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    ______________________ Multiculturalism has been happening for countless centuries, however the amount of it has drastically increased in volume since the post-war era, mainly as a result of refugee’s and issues that came along with the cold war. Since the first Iraq war, and general the modern period after the cold war, many minorities from non-European backgrounds have been moving slowly west in an attempt to get away from extremist beliefs and collapsed cities which have now become…

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    Alea Ortiguerra IDS 4315-0W59 Identity Assignment The identity perspective is interested in the ideas that guide institutions and how power influences ideas. There are many different identity ideas that argue about how the world is shaped politically, such as the spread of democracy and ideals shape the world, that civilization and culture shape the world, that multiculturalism works towards cooperation, and the necessity to champion basic human rights. Each argument has its own analysis on…

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    Some would argue, given the media coverage of Ferguson, Baltimore, South Carolina and Madison, that the primary source for conflict will arise from cultural, or civilizational, differences. Samuel Huntington’s hypothesis that “the great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural” is one that I have considered (Huntington, 1993, p. 1). To a point, I can understand and acknowledge that there may be some basis of truth in Huntington’s hypothesis. I believe…

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    Michael Parenti, The Face of Imperialism, 2011 Michael Parenti received his Ph. D. from Yale university. He is an internationally known award-winning author, scholar, and lecturer who addresses a wide variety of political and cultural subjects. He now serves on the advisory boards of Independent Progressive Politics, Education Without Borders, and the Jasenovic Foundation. He has currently written 23 books with topics on theocracy and other religious sins, democracy and economic power,…

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    I would like to answer how far the notion of kin-country syndrome from Samuel Huntington defines the issue of US attitude towards Palestinian-Israeli issue. But at first, I would like to define the definition of kin-country syndrome. Kin-country syndrome is a theory that initiated by Samuel Huntington on his thesis about Clash of Civilization, Kin-country syndrome means states or groups that have the same civilization, and engaged in a war against other groups of different civilizations, in…

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    Cook Civilizations

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    The societies that Cook recognizes as civilizations are some of the greatest of their time, and in some cases they are among the greatest civilizations ever on earth. However, the strict guidelines he has in place for the societies he discusses to be considered civilizations end up ‘disqualifying’ many accomplished would-be civilizations as less than. Cook’s initial argument was that to be a civilization people needed to be “sufficiently large and specialized that… different kinds of people did…

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    1. WHAT IS A RESEARCH QUESTION? The research question in Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations is: Will civilization/culture be the new basis of conflict between countries after the end of the Cold War? 2. A) WHAT IS/ARE THE MAIN HYPOTHESES AND NULL HYPOTHESES? Huntington had several hypotheses in his article. They include: i) The end of the Cold War between the West and East will create a new form of conflict among different religious and cultural identities; ii) This new form of…

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