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This 3 page paper looks at Samuel P. Huntington's work that says there is, as well as others that provide different theories. This paper has a thesis to contest the notion that there is a true clash. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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buildings would come tumbling down as would the relationships between Islam and Christian states. At least, on the surface, that is what it seemed. At the same time, there was
a call for tolerance. Still, people had a sense that a new way of looking at the world would forever be embraced. Samuel P. Huntington for example is well known
to have called this a clash of civilizations, but he wrote his well known book prior to the terrorist attacks. In Clash of Civilizations, Huntington (1998) provides a great
deal of insights into why September 11th occurred and why it should not have been a surprise. He says: "The weakening of the states and the appearance of "failed states,"
contribute to a fourth image of a world in anarchy. This paradigm stresses: the breakdown of governmental authority... the proliferation of nu- clear and other weapons of mass destruction;
the spread of terrorism; the prevalence of massacres and ethnic cleansing" (Huntington, 1998, 35). To this author, the world is changing and the fact that terrorism has risen is
simply a part of this new model. Of course, the author expresses nothing new but his work in a post-911 world takes on a new meaning. Prior to 9/11, his
ideas might have been construed as being somewhat the antithesis of the thinking of the world. Yes, people in the Middle East lived with terrorism, but U.S. citizens thought that
the terrorism really did not affect them much. They looked at it as something that was "over there." However, since the World Trade Center was taken down by a group
of terrorists, that idea has changed. It seems that to most people today, there is the recognition that terrorism is a major threat to the world. To
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