Topic > A Personal Perspective of the Clash of Civilizations

Although Samuel Huntington believes that world conflicts are caused by a clash of cultures, global conflict portrays the source as more religious since religious influence has promoted global conflicts that aim towards a New World Order where everyone sees the same views and aims for the same goal. James Gelvin stated in his book that scholars, journalists and politicians have adopted and popularized the ideas of Samuel P Huntington, professor at Harvard University to explain the emerging post-cold war world. He also states that according to Huntington the world faces a division into a number of distinct civilizations that are irreconcilable because they uphold completely different value systems. He singles out Islamic civilization as particularly dangerous due to its propensity for violence and in his own words “bloody boarders” and 9/11 supported his claim as evidence that Islam is in conflict with the West (Gelvin 2011 ). Civilizations developed from culture and can consist of a single diversity or consist 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 also take their title from Bernard Lewis' essay "The Roots of Muslim Rage" in which he stated "that we are faced with a state of mind and a movement in Islam that far transcends the level of issues and policies and governments that follow them This is no less a class of civilization Perhaps it is irrational, but certainly the historical receptions of an ancient rival against our Judeo Christian heritage, our secular present and the global expansion of both it is of fundamental importance that we for our part..... . half of the 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 the predicted “clash of civilizations” http://www.npr.org/ 2013/09/03/218627286/a-look-back-at-a-predicted-clash-of-civilitiesPfaff , W. (2006). Clash of cultures. Commonweal, 133(12), 13.Said, E (1998) The myth of the "clash of civilisations"http://www.mediaed.org/assets/products/404/transcript_404.pdfSwan, 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