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This 4 page paper considers Huntington's theory and takes as its thesis that the September 11 attack is not a good example of Huntington's thinking. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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future conflicts would be along cultural and religious lines. This paper considers Huntingtons theory and takes as its thesis that the September 11 attack is not a good example of
Huntingtons thinking. We turn first to an examination of Huntingtons work. The Theory of the Clash of Civilizations In his original article, Huntington wrote: It is my hypothesis that
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 conflict 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. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future (Huntington). In support of this hypothesis, Huntington traces what we
might call the development of conflict from the rise of the international system to the present. Before the international system developed, conflicts were "largely among princes-emperors" who were seeking to
expand their territories and improve their economies (Huntington). During these conflicts, Huntington says, "they created nation states, and beginning with the French Revolution the principle lines of conflict were between
nations rather than princes" (Huntington). The pattern thus created lasted until the end of World War I, then shifted again, as a result of the "Russian Revolution and the
reaction against it" (Huntington). This change ushered in an age of conflict of ideologies, "first among communism, fascism-Nazism and liberal democracy, and then between communism and liberal democracy" (Huntington). This
struggle found its supreme example in the Cold War, in which two superpowers, "neither of which was a nation state in the classical European sense" were locked in a decades
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