The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

by Huntington, Samuel P.

• ISBN13: 9781451628975
• ISBN10: 1451628978
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-08-02
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Summary

The classic study of post-Cold War international relations, now even more relevant in the post-September 11 world.

Author Biography

Samuel P. Huntington was the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University and chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. He was previously director of security planning for the National Security Council in the Carter administration, the founder and coeditor of Foreign Policy, and president of the American Political Science Association. Mr. Huntington died in 2008.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations: Tables, Figures, Maps	p. 11
Preface	p. 13
A World of Civilizations
The New Era in World Politics	p. 19
Introduction: Flags and Cultural Identity	p. 19
A Multipolar, Multicivilizational World	p. 21
Other Worlds?	p. 29
Comparing Worlds: Realism, Parsimony, and Predictions	p. 36
Civilizations in History and Today	p. 40
The Nature of Civilizations	p. 40
Relations Among Civilizations	p. 48
A Universal Civilization? Modernization and Westernization	p. 56
Universal Civilization: Meanings	p. 56
Universal Civilization: Sources	p. 66
The West and Modernization	p. 68
Responses to the West and Modernization	p. 72
The Shifting Balance of Civilizations
The Fading of the West: Power, Culture, and Indigenization	p. 81
Western Power: Dominance and Decline	p. 81
Indigenization: The Resurgence of Non-Western Cultures	p. 91
La Revanche De Dieu	p. 95
Economics, Demography, and the Challenger Civilizations	p. 102
The Asian Affirmation	p. 103
The Islamic Resurgence	p. 109
Changing Challenges	p. 120
The Emerging Order of Civilizations
The Cultural Reconfiguration of Global Politics	p. 125
Groping for Groupings: The Politics of Identity	p. 125
Culture and Economic Cooperation	p. 130
The Structure of Civilizations	p. 135
Corn Countries: The Failure of Civilization Shifting	p. 139
Core States, Concentric Circles, and Civilizational Order	p. 155
Civilizations And Order	p. 155
Bounding the West	p. 157
Russia and Its Near Abroad	p. 163
Greater China and Its Co-Prosperity Sphere	p. 168
Islam: Consciousness Without Cohesion	p. 174
Clashes of Civilizations
The West and the Rest: Intercivilizational Issues	p. 183
Western Universalism	p. 183
Weapons Proliferation	p. 186
Human Rights and Democracy	p. 192
Immigration	p. 198
The Global Politics of Civilizations	p. 207
Core State and Fault Line Conflicts	p. 207
Islam and the West	p. 209
Asia, China, and America	p. 218
Civilizations and Core States: Emerging Alignments	p. 238
Form Transition Wars to Fault Line Wars	p. 246
Transition Wars: Afghanistan and the Gulf	p. 246
Characteristics of Fault Line Wars	p. 252
Incidence: Islam's Bloody Borders	p. 254
Causes: History, Demography, Politics	p. 259
The Dynamics of Fault Line Wars	p. 266
Identity: The Rise of Civilization Consciousness	p. 266
Civilization Rallying: Kin Countries and Diasporas	p. 272
Halting Fault Line Wars	p. 291
The Future of Civilizations
The West, Civilizations, and Civilization	p. 301
The Renewal of the West?	p. 301
The West in the World	p. 308
Civilizational War and Order	p. 312
The Commonalities of Civilization	p. 318
Notes	p. 323
Index	p. 353
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