DEVS 240 Study Guide - Final Guide: Devs, Late Modernity, Eurocentrism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Global Development Studies
• Course: DEVS 240
• Professor: Marc Epprecht

Document Summary

Hypothesis that people"s cultural and religious identities will be the primary source of conflict in the post cold war world. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. Civilization: a cultural entity: villages, regions, ethnic groups, nationalities, religious groups, all have distinct cultures. 7/8 major civilizations: western, confucian o o. Differences are basic: history, language, culture, tradition and religion. Cultural entity, highest cultural grouping of people/ broadest cultural identity (eg. arab, Micro level of clash of civilizations: groups along fault lines between civilizations struggle violently for control over territory and each other (i"m assuming this to be similar to israel - palestine) Over control of territory and each other military and economic power, control over institutions and promote their political and religious values states from different civilizations compete for. A blueprint method will not work for developing civilizations.