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In his book The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the New World
Order (1996) Samuel P. Huntington put forward the thesis, popular with
large sections of the 'Right,' that the post-Cold-War world would be shaped
by its major civilizations and their interactions.
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For some it was the gently coded recognition of race that appealed, for others
it was the stigmatization of Islam as a rather unpleasant civilization that rang
true, so that the book became, for better or worse, a landmark of political
science. This makes it an ideal starting point for considering the topic of
civilizations in general and the problematic nature of the West in particular.
The book is well written in that it deploys supportive data for its theories in
the correct amounts and at reassuring intervals, but there is also an
extremely misshapen feel to Huntingdon's thesis that stems from the
following factors:
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The map showing the "World of Civilizations" in Huntingdon's book presents
nine civilizations, namely WESTERN, LATIN AMERICAN, AFRICAN,
ISLAMIC, SINIC (Chinese), HINDU (Indian), ORTHODOX (largely
Russian), BUDDHIST, and JAPANESE.
Huntingdon's scheme relies heavily on religion as a defining factor. This is
especially noticeable in his BUDDHIST 'civilization,' which includes such
disparate countries and climate zones as Thailand, Tibet, and Mongolia,
three countries that have little in common except for the fact that they are
Buddhist. Given their relative unimportance, it would perhaps have been
more elegant to have simply included them as peripheral regions of SINIC
civilization.
Religion is also the unacknowledged basis for his WESTERN civilization,
which throws together Catholic and Protestant countries, while strangely
excluding heavily Europeanized parts of South America and Africa. Given the
widespread lack of faith in most of THE WEST, this seems odd. Religion also
allows him to divide Russia and its satellites from THE WEST with Greece
thrown in as a kind of going away present! Another major problem is INDIA.
Just as American maps of the world have two Indias, one on each side, so
Huntingdon seems to think there are two, allocating the whole country to
both the ISLAMIC and HINDU civilizations.
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