REL 130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Kishore Mahbubani

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: REL 130
• Professor: altman

Document Summary

Rel: the clash of civilizations by samuel huntington. Hypothesis: the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflicts will be cultural. Nation states will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. R. r palmer (cid:862)the (cid:449)ars of ki(cid:374)gs are o(cid:448)er; the (cid:449)ars of people had (cid:271)egu(cid:374). (cid:863) (cid:894)1793(cid:895) lasted until after wwi. A civilization is the highest cultural grouping of people and the broadest level of cultural identity people have. The civilization to which he belongs is the broadest level of identification with which he intensely identifies. The world will be shaped in large measure by the interactions among 7 or 8 major civilizations: western, confusion, japanese, islamic, hindu, slavic-orthodox, latin american and possibly african.