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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order Paperback – 5 Jun. 2002
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In the article, Huntington posed the question whether conflicts between civilizations would dominate the future of world politics. In the book, he gives the answer, showing not only how clashes between civilizations are the greatest threat to world peace but also how an international order based on civilizations is the best safeguard against war. Since September 11, his thesis has seemed even more prescient and acute. THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS AND THE REMAKING OF WORLD ORDER is now recognised as a classic study of international relations in an increasingly uncertain world.
- Print length368 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherSimon & Schuster UK
- Publication date5 Jun. 2002
- Dimensions12.9 x 2.3 x 19.8 cm
- ISBN-10074323149X
- ISBN-13978-0743231497
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Samuel P. Huntington is currently Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor at Harvard University. One of the world's foremost experts on international relations, he is the author of numerous ground-breaking books and articles including THE SOLDIER AND THE STATE and POLITICAL ORDER IN CHANGING SOCIETIES.
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- Publisher : Simon & Schuster UK; Reissue edition (5 Jun. 2002)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 368 pages
- ISBN-10 : 074323149X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0743231497
- Dimensions : 12.9 x 2.3 x 19.8 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 24,854 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Samuel P. Huntington (1927-2008) was the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard and former chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. He authored and edited more than dozen books.
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Das bedeutet praktisch, dass eine Kritik an den Verhältnissen in einer anderen Kultur wie zum Beispiel China oder auch Russland überheblich ist. Sie entstammt einem westlichen Verständnis, das ganz naiv davon ausgeht, dass alle Welt nach unserem Verständnis glücklich werden sollen und müssen. Im schlimmsten Fall verbunden mit Drohungen und Sanktionen.
Was interessiert das praktisch? Eine Analyse für Soziologen und andere, aber politisch praktisch wertlos?
Im Gegenteil. Wenn man als ein sehr simples Beispiel die deutsche Politik vertreten durch die Innenministerin bei der Fussball WM in Katar nimmt, dann erkennt man sofort, wie absurd das Verhalten der Ministerin in einem arabischen Land, wo sie Gast war, gewesen ist. Relativ offenherzig - diplomatisch formuliert - und mit einer Armbinde, die die Gastgeber erziehen wollte, ihr Verhältnis zur Homosexualität zu verändern, in aller Öffentlichkeit, das war eine kulturelle Anmassung ohne gleichen und ohne jeden Sinn. Der Westen kann eben nicht davon ausgehen, dass eine islamische Gesellschaft unsere liberalen Vorstellungen übernimmt, er kann noch nicht einmal davon ausgehen, dass diese Gesellschaft das überhaupt toleriert. Wir müssen daher lernen, mit diesen Unterschieden umzugehen. Wir müssen die Welt nicht erziehen. Und wir würden damit auch inzwischen scheitern, da sich die Machtverhältnisse zu Lasten von Europa und den USA deutlich verschieben.
A book which claims to present a theory about "civilizations" at all, much less one contending that whatever they might be are necessarily in conflict should make reference to the vast literature on the specific "civilizations" themselves (area studies, history, history of religion, anthropolgy, etc.). All I see in the endnotes are references to articles by other political scientists, which "research method" amounts, in discussions of cultural difference and inter-cultural relations, to the "blind leading the blind" (and when the "blind" are also self-serving, then it can end up in quite a mess for the cafteria).
One example of the fallacious foundations of this entire "conceptual model" is the sheer ignorance in evidence in SH's discussion of the defining characteristics of the "West" which include separation of church and stat which is supposed to have some relevance to the claim of the West's predisposition towards the religious toleration which is essential to Western "individualism."
The paragraph (p.70) where he discusses this creates a spurious contrast between the West and the "Caesaropapist" other civilizations, partly because none of them possess a "church" which is directly comparable to the Roman Catholic Church of the "West" in that organization's temporal and thought-controlling claims.
Another disturbing example is his insistence on labeling China "Confucian," when the sort of autocratic tendencies which Westerners refer to when they use that term are in fact the legacy of *another* Chinese political philosophy altogether, Legalism (Fajia) and that there are at least two further political philosophies, the Daoist "anti-statist" and the Moist "utopian."
Elsewhere he says that the West is distinguished by its elevation of Law. But what is Islam but shariah, Law, Law, and more Law (like Judaism and unencumbered by Christological debates like the homoousios/Filioque dividing Catholicism and Orthodoxy one).
Indeed, it is a simplified conceptual model, and what such are not, but we must remember that simplemindedness is ignorance and that ignorance, whether willed or unwilled, is an IRRESPONSIBLE basis for action. Better the US play Hamlet on the world's stage than aid in the balkanization of once usually harmononious societies through "civilizationist" hysterias.
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Reviewed in Brazil on 23 November 2023
Consiglio la lettura ai più giovani per farsi un'idea chiara di ciò a cui stiamo andando incontro, e non solo, anche a chiunque voglia approfondire la questione europea degli ultimi 20 anni.





