Clash Of Civilization Huntington Summary

Clash of civilization by Samuel Huntington is believed to be containing facts about the political scene during the cold war era and stated or hypothesized that there is a new order prior to the end of the cold war. Societies and civilizations were divided by ideological differences. Political struggle between the ideologies of democracy and communism fueled Huntington’s arguments within the book. To begin his argument, Huntington classified civilization as the broadest cultural entity he also stated that civilizations are mortal but endures for a very long time and evolves overtime. Huntington also refutes some of the past paradigms that have been ineffective in explaining or calculating the reality of the global political order. Huntington’s

Furthermore Huntington classified the world into eight major civilizations namely: Sinic, Japanese, Hindu, Islāmic, Orthodox, Western, Latin America, and Africa. Japanese, Japanese culture as distinctively different from the rest of Asia. Hindu, The core of Indian culture and civilization. Western, centered in Europe and North America. Islāmic, Originates from the Arabian Peninsula, spreading across North Africa, Iberian Peninsula, and Central Asia. The Arab, Persian, Malay and Turkic are among the many district subdivisions within Islam. Orthodox, Originates from the Russian peninsula. Separate from Western Christianity. Sinic, the common culture of China and Chinese communities in Southeast Asia. Includes Vietnam and Korea. Africa, while the continent lacks a sense of a pan-African identity, Huntington claims that Africans are also increasingly developing the sense of Patriotism and African Identity. Latin American, Central and South American countries with a past of a corporatist, authoritarian culture. Majority of countries are of a Catholic