PS-0061 Lecture : Lecture 22.docx

• School: Tufts University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PS-0061
• Professor: Malik Mufti

Document Summary

Huntington: most important aspect of war is the incompatibilities between cultures, all different cultures, values are not universal and compatible, will always be conflictual, actors aren"t going to be states, but civilizations, still act like states though, russia and india counterweighs between muslim and western world, problem is the groupings are so broad and some don"t even have the same history, terrorists devote so much time to this ideology, devote their life, what is the role of culture in all of this, huntington addresses this issue, terrorists feel their position is justified. Humanitarian intervention: universal values, liberals believe yes, kenen say no, different religious leaders believe are there basic rules that should be applied to everyone, we cannot ignore these human rights violations o, enforcement paradox (hoffman, transform countries so that boundaries are jails for the lower class, make places more welcoming to those being oppressed, wants us intervention in countries where the leader is oppressive.