Huntington's Argumentative Analysis

Most states are heterogeneous and include two or more ethnic, racial or religious groups. Huntington makes an important argument which sheds light on the within civilizational conflicts: “Many countries are divided in that the differences and conflicts among these groups play an important role in the politics of the country. The depth of this division usually varies over time. Deep divisions within a country can lead to massive violence or threaten the country’s existence… (These) are likely to arise when cultural differences coincide with geography” (Ibid). (where does the quote begin?)

Cleft States are states with very large groups of populations which belong to different civilizations. Usually, a major group belonging to one civilization

Unlike the people of cleft countries, the people of the torn country agree on who they are, but disagree on which civilization they belong with to (Ibid). In the modern world, torn countries are usually rifted differ over questions of modernization, westernization, religion, and tradition, and culture.

1.4 A Globalizing world and a shifting balance of power

One of Huntington’s key arguments is globalization’s effects. He was one of the first scholars in the early 1990’s to present an early analysis of globalization’s grave implications on global politics.

The world is more open yet interdependent (more open to what?) and civilizations face more interactions, which create more friction between them. Globalization allows civilizations to modernize. However, modernization is distinct from Westernization, as the West often mistakenly thinks, and it does not bring the civilizations more closecloser or alike, neither nor does it creates a universal civilization with shared values. Globalization is a unifying power bus deviceeven, even more than a separating

Western liberalism is described with moral supremacy and as systematically more effective systematically. On the other hand, this Western culture is described as pretentious and antagonizing, and the thought that a universal civilization is emerging on the basis of Western liberalism is flying by reality (do you mean farfetched?). Huntington’s “Davos Culture”, of elites controlling world institutions, is treated with tremendous importance, as it holds most of the world power, . Hhowever, it is only the land of few, and remote from creating a universal culture, he argues. Common intellectual culture or a secular liberal universal culture exists only in elite level (Huntington S. P., 2011, pp.