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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Hardcover)
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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Hardcover)
Series: The Macat Library
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The end of the Cold War, which occurred early in the 1990s, brought
joy and freedom to millions. But it posed a difficult question to
the world's governments and to the academics who studied them: how
would world order be remade in an age no longer dominated by the
competing ideologies of capitalism and communism? Samuel P.
Huntington was one of the many political scientists who responded
to this challenge by conceiving works that attempted to predict the
ways in which conflict might play out in the 21st century, and in
The Clash of Civilizations he suggested that a new kind of
conflict, one centred on cultural identity, would become the new
focus of international relations. Huntington's theories, greeted
with scepticism when his book first appeared in the 1990s, acquired
new resonance after 9/11. The Clash of Civilizations is now one of
the most widely-set and read works of political theory in US
universities; Huntington's theories have also had a measurable
impact on American policy. In large part, this is a product of his
problem-solving skills. Clash is a monument to its author's ability
to generate and evaluate alternative possibilities and to make
sound decisions between them. Huntington's view, that international
politics after the Cold War would be neither peaceful, nor liberal,
nor cooperative, ran counter to the predictions of almost all of
his peers, yet his position - the product of an unusual ability to
redefine an issue so as to see it in new ways - has been largely
vindicated by events ever since.
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