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In 1993 Samuel P. Huntington wrote an article on international politics in the periodical Foreign Affairs entitled “The Clash of Civilizations” in which future conflicts were not foreseen as taking place between nation states, but between civilisations. The theories proposed have attracted much criticism. This 7 page paper examines the theories and the supporting as well as contradictory evidence. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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has attracted attention and created controversy, with subsequent events appearing to confirm some ideas whilst others appear to indicate some assumption were erroneous.
Huntington was in a position to be able to write such a controversial article due this is academic and professional standing, as the A professor at Harvard University, with
his title in of the Science of Government at Harvard University this book was seen by some as rationalising racism and by others as a warning of what may occur
if the political scenarios that had been followed as a result of the political paradigms that had been followed for the past forty years were to continue.
The article, and then the book which expanded on the ideas and was published three years later can be seen as a reaction and a
reply to the theories of Francis Fukuyama. Fukuyama hypothesised that the world was moving towards the end of history following the cold war. Fukuyama stated that; "What we may
be witnessing in not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: that is,
the end point of mankinds ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government" (Fukuyama,
1989). Fukuyama argument, against which Huntington is writing, had two main elements; firstly that democracy, which was once only one among a number of government systems, has increased in
its prevalence and most of the alternative government systems have been discredited. Secondly, Fukuyama looks to the work of Hegel, seeing the world as consisting of a dialect between two
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