Politics, Power and Resistance Week 6: A Clash of Civilizations? from idea islamic cold Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 24 min 95 sec
✓ Published: 01-Apr-2014

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In the aftermath of the Cold War, at the beginning of the 1990s, American political scientist, Samuel Huntington, published the paper ‘The Clash of Civilizations?’ He predicted that the world would no longer be ideologically divided between liberal democracy and communism, but between incompatible cultural blocks, which he called civilizations. In particular, Huntington saw the Islamic civilization as utterly irreconcilable with ‘Western liberal values’ such as pluralism, individualism a