The Clash of Civilizations

The Cold War was a hostile rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union. It lasted from the late 1940s until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The war was "cold" only in that the United States and USSR never fought each other in a direct military confrontation, but both superpowers threatened each other with nuclear annihilation and participated frequently in "proxy wars" by supporting allied nations in numerous "hot" wars in places like Korean, Vietnam, and Angola. The Cold…

Discord among two people who both want to be the leader causes societies to fall apart and almost always results in chaos. In William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, the two main characters, Jack and Ralph both want to be chief which eventually leads to the destruction of their society. When the boys first get together after Ralph blows a conch he found on the ground, they vote Ralph as leader. However, Jack says arrogantly “‘I ought to be chief’”. (Golding, 19). The manner of which Jack…

How to deal with moral differences varies on the perspective at hand. Dealing with the clash that has surfaced between the western value of freedom of the press and the sacredness of the Muslim religion is a prominent issue currently in society. An ethical relativist does not believe in a universal moral truth, but instead that the morals at hand, revolve around the culture, especially the specific “time and place”. Whereas a soft universalist believes in the idea of a few universal moral truths…

Huntington’s argument that “clashes of civilizations are the greatest threat to world peace” is suggesting that major conflict now will not be state against state but civilization (like the West) against civilization. This is the idea that people are no longer identifying themselves with a nation state but with a larger group of people with like-minded beliefs. This can be seen…

During the late sixteenth century, Spain had been fueled with fervor for colonial expansion. This reflected the European ideology of the time, which entailed the culturally myopic notion that Europe was the paragon of civilization, and that European nations had not only the right but also the obligation to civilize and westernize barbaric people from barbaric cultures, and to seize and imperialistically re-appropriate their foreign land. Jan Van Der Straet’s allegory “Discovery of America:…

As the Vikings continued to expand, they endured more religious transformation from paganism to Christianity. In Denmark, the conversation occurred under King Gorm. This King despised Christianity and sought to destroy this religion. When King Henry traveled into Denmark, King Gorm granted Henry power over him, but still refused to convert to Christianity. His later generations however, fail to maintain such resistance beginning with Bluetooth. Bluetooth allowed public profession of Christ…

From its earliest time, human history recounts wars among its civilizations. Wars were, and still are, typically accompanied by arguments for and against waging them. Many have justified war; many have lamented its consequences. It is said that war is a part of an effort to eradicate it all together someday, or that it is an inevitable part of life. War is a difficult subject to explain. There are several reasons why they take place, most of them unjustifiable. Unjustifiable as war might be, it…

democracy. This move to free markets and democracy would inevitable cause the nations to become so similar, his convergence theory. Samuel Huntington argued, in The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, that no matter how similar countries became economically and politically cultural differences would cause civilizations to clash. Now that it has been some years after the publication of these texts we can analyze the dynamic and in this essay we will be discussing Russia since…

They need to distinguish between those seeking for spiritual fulfillment and those who want to push the clash of civilization. Young-adults need to be part of the solution to Islamic State terrorism, and must be allowed to be part of the discussion, because they are the decision makers of tomorrow and possibly solvers of terrorism. Unity and resilience within all…

an undesirable condition whereby the number of existing human population exceeds the available space and resources in the country. Overpopulation can occur when there is a high fertility (birth) rate and low mortality (death) rate. When there is a clash of these two extremes, the problem of overpopulation is sure to surface. Overpopulation is horrible for a lot of obvious reasons, some of which would be listed and discussed below: I) Presence of Natural Deaths: If a country is…