Clashes Between Cultures

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This paper considers the thesis put forward by Samuel Huntington that the world can now best be described as divided into separate cultures and that future conflicts will occur between these different cultures. It examines what he considers the major civilizations of the world and gives six reasons why he believes that the most important conflicts of the future will occur along the cultural fault lines separating these civilizations from one another.

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"His third argument is that as globalization to some extent separates peoples from their local identities, and weakens the nation state a source of identity, this gap is filled by religion, often quite extreme or fundamentalist in nature. George Weigel has noted that the "Unsecularisation of the world is one of the dominant social facts of life in the late twentieth century." The revival of religion, then, unites civilizations by providing a basis for identity that transcends state boundaries as the movements within western Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism and most documented, Islam, attest to."

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