POLSCI 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: French Revolution, Psychopathology, Westernization
11 Apr 2018
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In the discipline of political science, terrorism is usually treated as having social-level causes. Rather than as something that can be reduced to individual psycho-pathology. One of the most influential (and most problematic) accounts of the impact of culture on world politics was written by samuel huntington. Huntington argued in the clash of civilizations that world conflict is moving in a new direction. One where cultural clash will become more and more significant. His argument starts with an overview of the changing nature of global conflict across the modern era: war of princes. From the peace of westphalia (1648) until the french revolution: war of peoples. From the french revolution until world war one: war of ideologies. A(cid:272)(cid:272)ordi(cid:374)g to hu(cid:374)ti(cid:374)gto(cid:374): (cid:862)the fu(cid:374)da(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal sour(cid:272)e of (cid:272)o(cid:374)fli(cid:272)t i(cid:374) the (cid:374)e(cid:449) (cid:449)orld (cid:449)ill (cid:374)ot be primarily ideological or economic. The great division among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural.
