Ryan Cottrell
Final Paper
Gitlitz
Samuel Huntington was the writer of “The Clash of Civilizations”
.
This work was
at the time viewed as revolutionary, people believed that his view of the post cold-war
world was dead-on and that we should now look at how the world is shaping
.
Huntington
wrote in this apocalyptic proposition that the world would be re-shaped by cultural
conflicts
.
He used several present examples to try to show that the world was doomed to
world wars all because of cultural differences
.
This close minded opinion shows the
world through a tunnel vision outlook that neglects key facts
.
His incorrect thoughts
process could lead to disaster if shared with world leaders
.
Huntington believed that the world would surely end with cultures going head to
head and starting wars, cutting alliances, and completely cutting these countries out
.
In
his opinion it was happening right now
.
He coined the nations of Islam, the Sin´ic
nations, Western Cultures, and Latin America
.
He believed that the conflicts we were
having all stemmed from the U
.
S
.
involvement in international affairs
.
He believes we
created resentment with our brutish and pushy influence
.
In Huntington’s paper he gives the example of the Bosnian conflict
.
He says that
this split into fault line where all the different sides fought to gain control and spread their
ideas and cultures
.
He brought up that the Muslim group in Bosnia tried to get support
from other Islamic Cultures around the world, including the U
.
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- Fall '08
- LaGuardia
- new world war
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