The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order - Hardcover

Huntington, Samuel P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684811642 ISBN 13: 9780684811642

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1996

Synopsis

Predicting greater future conflicts between Western and non-Western cultures, a political study argues for greater understanding of non-Western civilizations and offers strategies for maximizing Western influence. 30,000 first printing. Tour.

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Review

The thesis of this provocative and potentially important book is the increasing threat of violence arising from renewed conflicts between countries and cultures that base their traditions on religious faith and dogma. This argument moves past the notion of ethnicity to examine the growing influence of a handful of major cultures--Western, Eastern Orthodox, Latin American, Islamic, Japanese, Chinese, Hindu, and African--in current struggles across the globe. Samuel P. Huntington, a political scientist at Harvard University and foreign policy aide to President Clinton, argues that policymakers should be mindful of this development when they interfere in other nations' affairs.

About the Author

Samuel P. Huntington was the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University, where he was also the director of the John M. Olin Institute for Stategic Studies and the chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. He was the director of security planning for the National Security Council in the Carter administration, the founder and coeditor of Foreign Policy, and the president of the American Political Science Association.

Edition details

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0684811642
• ISBN 13: 9780684811642
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368