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Paperback The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order Book

ISBN: 0684844419

ISBN13: 9780684844411

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

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Predicting greater future conflicts between Western and non-Western cultures, a political study argues for greater understanding of non- Western civilizations.
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Rated 5 stars
infuriating generalizations; hurtful truths

In Huntington's model of international relations, there are several civilizations in the world: the West (Europe, USA), Sinic(China, Korea, Sinapore and Taiwan), and Islam. Other civilizations he mentions are Orthodox (Russia, Greece, Serbia, Romania, etc.), Latin America, Japan, Buddhism (mainland Southeast Asia), and Hindu (India). These civilizations relate to each other with varying degrees of hostility or cooperation...

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Lucid and revelatory

Published in 1996, Huntington's book is stunningly prescient given the events of 9-11. He begins by mapping and describing his paradigm of the world's eight current major civilizations: Sinic, Islamic, Hindu, Western, Latin American, African, Orthodox, and Japanese. Much of the book is dedicated to an exposition of the relative rise and fall in fortunes of each. His well-argued thesis is that Western Civilization, led by its...

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Too big a chunk of reality?

I remember noticing the essay on which this book was based, in an international newspaper several years ago. Though I knew nothing of the author at the time, I don't think it took me more than a paragraph or two to realize, first, "This is a major argument," second, "It has some validity," and third, "This is going to make a lot of people mad." The book is, of course, far more nuanced and detailed than the article. I do...

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