The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order - Taschenbuch

A book that made our politicians uneasy by predicting the world after the collapse of communism - with the rise of Islam as a serious rival to western liberal culture and civilisation - with ominous possibilities foretold. He shows the intrinsic weaknesses of multiculturalism as he expected it to work out., The thesis of the provocative and potentially important Clash of Civilizations is that the increasing threat of violence arising from renewed conflicts between countries and cultures that base their traditions on religious faith and dogma. This argument moves past the notion of ethnicity to examine the growing influence of a handful of major cultures--Western, Eastern Orthodox, Latin American, Islamic, Japanese, Chinese, Hindu and African--in current struggles across the globe. Samuel P Huntington, a political scientist at Harvard University and foreign policy aide to President Clinton, argues that policymakers should be mindful of this development when they interfere in other nations' affairs. --Christine Buttery