The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
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Based on the leader’s seminal article in Foreign Affairs, Samuel P. Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order is a provocative and prescient analysis of the state of world politics after the fall of communism. In this sharp work, the renowned political scientist clarifies how “civilizations” have replaced nations and ideologies as the driving force in global politics today and offers a brilliant analysis of the current climate and future possibilities of our world’s volatile political culture.Amazon.com Review
The thesis of this provocative and potentially vital book is the increasing threat of violence arising from renewed conflicts between countries and cultures that base their traditions on religious faith and dogma. This argument moves past the notion of ethnicity to examine the growing influence of a handful of major cultures–Western, Eastern Orthodox, Latin American, Islamic, Japanese, Chinese, Hindu, and African–in current struggles across the globe. Samuel P. Huntington, a political scientist at Harvard University and foreign policy aide to President Clinton, argues that policymakers should be mindful of this development when they interfere in additional nations’ affairs.
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please do not waste your time, nearly everything is better than this book
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Well i just can tell mister Huntington that’s it is another life, the real life in the streets. He should take a walk and talk to people, regular people. The book just shows how unplugged he is from reality. One thing is to read and read, and another its to prove that the things that he writes got any tie with reality.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
O.K., ever since Homeric Greeks invaded Troy, Persia invades Athens, Phoenician Carthage invaded Rome, there has been a clash between East and West…Represented by two symbols…banners….emblems…A CRUCIFIX and A SICKLE MOON…Carried, get this, by Western-Civilization Christians invading
Islamic-Civilization Muslims(…)
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
First we were told European civilization is a hive breeding racism, intolerance & “despise”. Now we are supposed to enlist in ideological war to defend it against Muslims… If the first premise is right, then why not REJOYCE its destruction on Muslim hands. If that premise is incorrect, then everything we have been inoculated with is shattered to the ground.
The leader is incorrect on all sides. First, of course, there is no clash of civilizations. On one side, we have a wreck of really degenerate, loathful, compromised “Western” Civilization (openly deprived of even its name: European). On the additional, we have a civilization complementary to the one of European Middle-Ages. The ex-, no matter how rotting and turned upside down, is expansive, permanently attempting to convert the world, by propaganda or warfare, to its own values. The latter has stopped to expand from many centuries.
In the glorious tradition of revisionist historians, Huntington prefers ideological doubletalk to past fact. Past fact is that, since the modern age, “Western” culture is the one attempting to ruin Muslim civilization.
It uses two methods: single it out as “backward” (imagine if we dare to use that word, more viably, to Sub-Saharan Africa) and threatening, in order to raise sustained public enmity.
The second is the strategy of the spider. The spider kills and eats larger prey than itself because its venom reasonably factually digests the preyed animal before it’s really eaten. In our case, our degenerate civilization preaches “tolerance”, “human rights”, “democracy” and “individual freedom” (!) to its hosts, then it waits for the venom to take the desired effect, which is a carbon copy of itself, different only by name. Or, in a worst case scenario, something pacified to such a level that it offers no longer any sustained resistance to the parasitic attack which threatens its being. This happened to organized Christian churches and I see no reason, agreed the huge disparity of forces, why this won’t take place to Muslims, as well.
Secondly, even if such a clash would exist, Muslims would pose no threat because they lack unity within, both on ethnic and sectarian level. Not to mention that, of course, any of such attempts to bring unity would be used by our propaganda apparatus as justification for Total Warfare against Muslims.
All in all, propaganda book of no value, summoning “facts” to keep honest people further outside the real spectrum of causes and effects which have generated the present state of events.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
(There are enough english reviews)
Huntington asegura que hay que soñar en inglés para soar el sueo americano (en su nuevo libro Who Are We, que tampoco te recomiendo). Este es sólo un ejemplo más de la ignorancia y arrogancia llevada al bestseller.
Se puede entender un choque de civilizaciones entre dos grupos humanos separados por miles de años y cuyas visiones por consecuencia se han alejado una de otra a tal grado que una es incapaz de entender a la otra o en ese entendimiento surgen diferencias irreconciliables. Ese podría ser el caso, por ejemplo, del choque entre españoles con los nativos del continente americano entre los siglos XV y XVII, separados por la última migración masiva entre los continentes durante la edad de hielo, en el que una civilización se impone a otra y no acaba realmente por integrarse sino por excluirse mutuamente, y en donde una parte queda subordinada o, en ocasiones, eliminada.
El caso de Estados Unidos es aún menos complejo, el mundo islámico no está chocando con el occidental, es un país contra un enemigo difuso constituido por celulas aisladas; no es el occidente, ni es el islamismo, es una política consistente mantenida durante las últimas décadas ejercida por los Estados Unidos. La profundidad de esa intencionalidad estadounidense consiste en ejercer la hegemonía de su poder para imponer su visión de mundo, lo que llama su forma de vida.
Estados Unidos no puede evitar quererse ver como quiere verse: en esa necesidad por verse a sí mismo como hredentor de los pueblos del mundo al tiempo que justifica sus acciones echando mano de conceptología como verdad y justicia que son su verdad y su justicia. Estados Unidos ha sido inevitablemente una fábrica de estereotipos, de ellos mismos y del resto del mundo. Ello ha provocado irritación y odio que se ha profundizado a consecuencia de las guerras en oriente. Irritación que llega a niveles de exaltación cuando se humilla sistemáticamente con todo tipo de actitudes, desde polticas internas que afectan a los inmigrantes y turistas que tratan de ingresar a los Estados Unidos hasta aquellas que dictan políticas extraterritoriales pretendiendo interferir en asuntos ajenos de la vida de otras naciones, ejemplos de esto en América Latina son frecuentes.
No queda más que suponer que existe una intencionalidad en la forma en la que el gobierno de Estados Unidos actúa y quiere ser visto por el resto del mundo. Estados Unidos no puede evitar reflejar lo que a sí mismo se reproduce, es la pelcula que Hollywood siempre quiso hacer y que de alguna manera produjo. Es así que la fuente de su riqueza es al mismo tiempo la de su infortunio. Como todo productor es responsable de su pelcula pero también víctima del guión que ha elegido seguir como protagonista. Lo que le ha sucedido es tan atroz como inevitable a consecuencia de su acción. El fundamentalismo es en un alto grado recíproco, y fundamentalismo repondido con fundamentalismo no hace más que radicalizarlo aún más.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5