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  • Essay / A Personal Perspective on the Clash of Civilizations

    Even though Samuel Huntington believes that global conflicts are caused by a clash of cultures, global conflicts present the source as being more religious in that religious influence has favored global conflicts aimed at a new World Order where everyone sees the same points of view and aims for the same goal. James Gelvin said in his book that academics, journalists and policymakers adopted and popularized the ideas of Harvard University professor Samuel P Huntington to explain the emergence of the post-cold. world of war. He also claims that, according to Huntington, the world faces a division into a number of distinct civilizations which are irreconcilable because they have totally different value systems. He points to Islamic civilization as particularly dangerous because of its propensity for violence and, in his words, "bloody frontiersmen", and the September 11 attacks supported his thesis as proof that Islam is in conflict with the West (Gelvin 2011). Civilizations developed through culture and can be of a single diversity or made up of multiple diversities, which draws a negative conclusion from Huntington's essay "The Clash of Civilizations" based on many factors. A closer examination of Huntington's essay reveals that he more or less followed the works even repeating the title of Bernard Lewis's essay "The Roots of Muslim Rage" in which he declared: "we are confronted with a mood and movement in Islam that far transcends the level of issues and the policies and governments that follow them. least one class of civilizations. These are perhaps irrational, but surely historic receptions from an ancient rival against our Judeo-Christian heritage, our secular present, and the global expansion of both. . middle of document......ountid=32521Huntington S (1996) The Clash of Civilizations http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/pnorris/Acrobat/Huntington_Clash.pdfInglehart,R & Norris,P (2003) The real clash of civilizations http://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/162/27604.htmlNPR (2013) A look back at a planned “clash of civilizations” http://www.npr.org/ 2013/ 03/09/218627286/a-look-back-at-a-predicted-clash-of-civilizations Pfaff, W. (2006). Culture shock. Commonweal, 133(12), 13. Said, E (1998) The myth of the “clash of civilizations” http://www.mediaed.org/assets/products/404/transcript_404.pdf Swan, D (2010) A critique of Huntington's “Clash of Civilizations” http://www.academia.edu/1416654/A_Criticism_of_Huntingtons_Clash_of_CivilizationsVoll,J (ND) The impossibility of the clash of civilizations in a globalized world http://acmcu.georgetown.edu/135378.html