POLB81H3 Chapter Notes -George Weigel, Islamic Revival, Liberal Democracy
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Fundamental source of conflict in this new world won"t be primarily ideological/primarily eco. Great divisions among humankind & dominating source of conflict will be cultural. Nation states will remain most powerful actors in world affairs but principal conflicts of global politics will occur btw nations & groups of diff civilizations. Clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. Fault lines btw civilizations will be battle lines of future. Conflict btw civilizations will be the latest phase in evolution of conflict in modern world. For century & half after emergence of modern int"l system w/ peace of westphalia, conflicts of western world were largely among princes emperors, absolute monarchs. & constitutional monarchs attempting to expand their bureaucracies, their armies, their mercantilist eco strength &, most important, territory they ruled. In process they created nation states, & beginning w/french revolution principal lines of conflict were btw nations rather than princes.