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The Clash Of Civilizations And The Remaking Of World Order
Samuel P. Huntington
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
August 2011
On Sale: August 2, 2011
368 pages
ISBN: 1451628978
EAN: 9781451628975
Kindle: B000R1BAH4
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Non-Fiction Political
Since its initial publication nearly fifteen years ago
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 As ideological distinctions among nations have been
replaced by cultural differences, world politics has been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.
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