The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
by Huntington, Samuel P.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-08-02
Publisher(s): Simon & Schuster
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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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