The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
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Based on the author'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 incisive work, the renowned political scientist explains 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. Publishers Weekly Huntington here extends the provocative thesis he laid out in a recent (and influential) Foreign Affairs essay: we should view the world not as bipolar, or as a collection of states, but as a set of seven or eight cultural "civilizations"one in the West, several outside itfated to link and conflict in terms of that civilizational identity. Thus, in sweeping but dry style, he makes several vital points: modernization does not mean Westernization; economic progress has come with a revival of religion; post-Cold War politics emphasize ethnic nationalism over ideology; the lack of leading "core states" hampers the growth of Latin America and the world of Islam. Most controversial will be Huntington's tough-minded view of Islam. Not only does he point out that Muslim countries are involved in far more intergroup violence than others, he argues that the West should worry not about Islamic fundamentalism but about Islam itself, "a different civilization whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power." While Huntington notes that the war in Bosnia hardened into an ethno-religious clash, he downplays the possibility that such splintering could have been avoided. Also, his fear of multiculturalism as a source of American weakness seems unconvincing and alarmist. Huntington directs the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard. (Nov.)
List of Illustrations: Tables, Figures, Maps11Preface131The New Era in World Politics192Civilizations in History and Today403A Universal Civilization? Modernization and Westernization564The Fading of the West: Power, Culture, and Indigenization815Economics, Demography, and the Challenger Civilizations1026The Cultural Reconfiguration of Global Politics1257Core States, Concentric Circles, and Civilizational Order1558The West and the Rest: Intercivilizational Issues1839The Global Politics of Civilizations20710From Transition Wars to Fault Line Wars24611The Dynamics of Fault Line Wars26612The West, Civilizations, and Civilization301Notes323Index353
