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

    By Samuel P. Huntington

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    The classic study of post-Cold War international relations, more relevant than ever in the post-9/11 world, with a new foreword by Zbigniew Brzezinski.

    Since its initial publication, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order has become a classic work of international relations and one of the most influential books ever written about foreign affairs. An insightful and powerful analysis of the forces driving global politics, it is as indispensable to our understanding of American foreign policy today as the day it was published. As former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski says in his new foreword to the book, it “has earned a place on the shelf of only about a dozen or so truly enduring works that provide the quintessential insights necessary for a broad understanding of world affairs in our time.”

    Samuel Huntington explains how clashes between civilizations are the greatest threat to world peace but also how an international order based on civilizations is the best safeguard against war. Events since the publication of the book have proved the wisdom of that analysis. The 9/11 attacks and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have demonstrated the threat of civilizations but have also shown how vital international cross-civilization cooperation is to restoring peace. As ideological distinctions among nations have been replaced by cultural differences, world politics has been reconfigured. Across the globe, new conflicts—and new cooperation—have replaced the old order of the Cold War era.

    The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order explains how the population explosion in Muslim countries and the economic rise of East Asia are changing global politics. These developments challenge Western dominance, promote opposition to supposedly “universal” Western ideals, and intensify intercivilization conflict over such issues as nuclear proliferation, immigration, human rights, and democracy. The Muslim population surge has led to many small wars throughout Eurasia, and the rise of China could lead to a global war of civilizations. Huntington offers a strategy for the West to preserve its unique culture and emphasizes the need for people everywhere to learn to coexist in a complex, multipolar, muliticivilizational world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster
    Release dateMay 31, 2007
    ISBN9781416561248
    The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
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    Samuel P. Huntington

    Samuel P. Huntington was the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University, where he was also the director of the John M. Olin Institute for Stategic Studies and the chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. He was the director of security planning for the National Security Council in the Carter administration, the founder and coeditor of Foreign Policy, and the president of the American Political Science Association.

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    • 5/5
      A consensus ground-breaking book about geopolitics and worldviews. Well enough written, but it was genuinely the book that really shook up my worldview and started me down the path to studying Biblical worldview and the interaction of divergent faiths.
    • 4/5
      The author argues that the political, social and economic interactions of "civilizations" will be the driving force of history since the Cold War ended.
    • 4/5
      An alarming but thorough analysis as to why the West is losing influence over the world. People are becoming better connected not through ideology, but through cultural identity. Huntington is a bit of an alarmist but he backs up his claims with case studies. He overdid the threat from China but was right on the money in predicting antagonism from Islam. A good and worthy read.
    • 3/5
      While I don't always agree with Huntington's conclusions and opinions -- and I sometimes dispute his "facts" -- I must say that this book is an excellent introduction to the issues that we, inhabitants of the world, face as the world continues to "shrink" and members of such a great variety of civilizations and cultures are brought closer and closer together. "The other" is often more different from ourselves -- and more difficult to really understand -- than most of us would like to admit. Two features of this book that stood out to me as especially worthy of consideration were: 1. Huntington's consideration of what it is that makes Western Civilization different from the other civilizations of the world and 2. Huntington's examination of the roots of Islamic violence. In these two areas especially I think that his commentary is especially insightful and helpful. I recommend this book to all people of all civilizations as seek to live together peacefully in this complex world of ours.
    • 4/5
      Worth the time to read, particularly if you suspect you'll disagree with much of it. Huntington's argumentation is occasionally lazy, but is overall fairly persuasive. His points about multiculturalism that wrap the book up, however, do not come across as terribly thoughtful.
    • 5/5
      Amazing. Thought provoking. Scary.

      This detailed, thoroughly researched book gave me quite a lot to think about regarding the dynamics of international relations.
      Interestingly - it was written in the mid 90s, BEFORE 9-11 and all of the current economic and political upheaval.
      What I took away from this:
      -China will be the next dominant superpower
      -Islam is going to be a force to be reckoned with -for good or ill -to a degree unsurpassed in history
      -US intervention in the Middle East - regardless of the immediate "threat" solved- always winds up as a
      bad idea long term

      I finished this book a few weeks before the Libya mess started and I have a bad feeling about it. It fits the pattern to a T.
    • 4/5
      Controversial book that sparked a lot of debate. Huntington's view is that the next war will be a clash between cultures and religion.
    • 5/5
      The conclusions are not very happy, but this is a very well thought out book. His treatment of Africa and Latin America do leave a little to be desired, but neither is the real focus of the thesis.
    • 3/5
      Really compelling stuff! Very well researched, though I worry his interpretation of the data was a small bit biased.
    • 5/5
      excellent book and sadly proving to be true in these days
    • 3/5
      Comprehensive. Yet, the argument that civilizations are the base unit, and that they don't get along or trust each other, is very poorly argued, straw men litter the pages, separated often by strings of non-sequiturs. That being said, the analysis is still often very astute; even if Huntington is wrong, something like his thesis is most probably correct. All in all, worth reading, especially now that China, Russia, and Islam are all on the ascendant. Japan, heh, not so much. There's some pretty good humor to be found in the Japan parts of this book, written when it looked like Japan's strong economy was here to stay.3 stars on oc
    • 5/5
      A terrific book that reads as though Huntington had a crystal ball.

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