POLI 260 Chapter Notes - Chapter Clash of Civilizations, Realism: Gulf War, Emerging Power, Muslim Population Growth
20 Apr 2018
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A hypothesis about a new post-cold war world order. Sinic common culture of china and chinese communities in se asia, including. Japanese japanese culture is different from rest of asia. Islamic originating on arabian peninsula, spreading across north africa, iberian. Arab, turkic, persian and malay = all subdivisions w/in. Western centered in europe and north america. Latin america central and south american countries w/ a past of corporatist, authoritarian culture. Africa while the continent lacks in sense of a pan-african identity, huntington claims. Africans are also increasingly developing a sense of african identity. Cultural influence is interdependent western civilizations influence and are influenced by smaller, less powerful civilizations around the world. Global communications are dominated by the west. The notion of a single, universal culture is not helpful in creating explanation or description of global political order. However huntington believes that modernization increases cross-culture communication, the similarities among cultures also increases. Contrasting views on the west"s hold on power.
