POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 50: Economic Democracy, Teleology, Welfare
12 Mar 2016
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The end of history and the clash of civilizations lecture notes. Envisioning configurations of power and the future of humanity after dissolve of su, post-cold war era under way. Huntington, more complex view, highlights that the nation state may not be the most powerful/important actor going forward. Is the clash of civilizations happening? some of the clashes huntington predicted have come to pass, while others have not. Divisions can be more intense within civilizations than between them: 7-8 different civilizations identified within huntington"s argument, eg. Sunni and shi"a: islamic bloc, african region ethno-linguistic diversity, not technically one big group eg. libyans not worried about neighbour, but question of civil war ongoing african civil wars in libya, mali, ivory coast, nigeria, congo, south. Sudan notion that the state is a unitary actor this has declined in importance as we see more conflict within the state and rise of non-state groups such as the.
