The Clash of Civilizations

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…

“The Clash of Civilizations?” he writes about a post cold war world and what it would look like. A man by the name of David Brooks wrote an article disagreeing with Huntington’s essay. He did not try to make him look like a fool, but simply tell a different side of what Huntington wrote. At the beginning of the article Mr. Brooks begins by summarizing the parts of the essay he will talk about. He focusses on the Arab people and their struggles, but he does talk about the Islamic civilization and…

orientalism, Edward Said, states, “nations are narratives”, emphasizing that nations produce their beliefs and values through their widespread dialogue. Furthermore, each civilization has its own story, its own past and present, its own distinctions that make it unique. One might argue, that Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations argument is based off of racism, western bias, and white supremacy; moreover, another form of xenophobia and reasoning for quarrelling conflicts. Due to the fact…

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 what should be done to help the world. Samuel P. Huntington wrote an article entitled The Clash of Civilization where he makes his argument that after the cold war the fundamental source of conflict would move…

In “Clash of Civilizations over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio” most of the native born citizens often dislike the immigrants and blame them when things go wrong. Some of the characters say that they’re not racist but that they hate immigrants. They also try to blame the immigrants for the murder. In the story Elisabetta’s dog is kidnapped and she doesn’t know who did it. At first she tries to blame the Chinese for taking her dog. She wants the Italian authorities to cut off diplomatic…

if poverty was the cause of terrorism there would have been more attacks in previous decades. Scott M. Lynn-Jones states that terrorist attacks are carried out by very intelligent, educated people (Lynn-Jones xii). In Mousseau’s “Market Civilization and Its Clash with Terror,” it talks about the…

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…

Arguments against the “clash of civilizations” (CoC) theory have been made by authors such as Chiozza, Henderson and Tucker. According to these authors, civilizational factors alone are insufficient in producing greater risk of conflict. Other factors such as regime-type, geographical proximity, modernization, military capabilities, Cold war blocs, and major power status affect the prospects for conflict involvement between states as well. I will focus on regime-type, geographical proximity and…

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 other words a group or state that has the same civilization support each other to combat the different civilizations. And he states that country or group will focus on the relationship, which has the same civilization as they are. In kin-country syndrome,…

Marienny Ramirez English 12 Professor: Edris McPherson 10/14/2015 (Happy Birthday Marienny!) Do I Agree or Disagree with Huntington’s Analysis & Arguments? Samuel Phillips Huntington wrote a book called The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) the essay “The West and the Rest: Intercivilizational Issue” was taken from the book. Huntington explains the conflict between Islam and the West. Regarding the idea of "The West versus the Rest", to hold that idea requires a…