Clash of Civilization in Middle East Ever since demise of ‘Communist threat’ in 1993, all scholars of the world are proliferating about future of the world. Among them ‘Samuel P. Huntington 's theory’ ‘Clash of Civilization’ is topic of debate in all over the world. According to this, “Conflicts of post-cold war era occur along cultural fault lines like region, ethnic groups and nationalities and religious group and divide civilization at two levels. First is micro level, in which countries try to hold their control in their territory. Second is macro level, in which countries compete for military power in order to promote their political and religious values. Now in present days, situation of ‘Middle East’ is the worst in the world. ‘Huntington’s theory of Clash of Civilization’ is proving true in Middle East. Civilization is facing threats from dragons of their regimes at micro and macro level. But world is not giving importance to that dangerous situation and especially Muslims countries who are fighting with each other for their political control rather than to sit and find solution of that situation. As regards, element of religion in International relations, there are two types of School of thoughts are present in the world,
1) According to first one, as international relations is secular term. So, there is no part of
“A house divided against itself cannot stand”, words from Abraham Lincoln(Doc. M). You will need to know that when President Lincoln said that quote, this “house” he talks of is the United States. You also will need to know that the North and South had different perspectives about slavery, the North did not like slavery, the South did. Anyway, the Civil War was caused by the issue of the North’s and South’s different opinions. The first reason was about economic differences.
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The authors narrate contemporary findings that many authors neglect in regards to Western civilization adding up to the influential domination of the West in our world today. The take home point the authors are driving is that current happenings in the world today can be rooted to the influence of Western civilization. The authors wrote a very detailed account and transitions nicely, the only issue is that there are biases. Bias in that not the entire story is told and it is told from a perspective of a religious analysis.
Many view the Western Powers as innocent in this conflict, however this article states otherwise. It is valuable because one person/country’s opinion should not count more than another’s. • Limitations – This source is opinionated, one-sided and biased against the Western Powers as it is written from the perspective of a person intentionally questioning the norm. It states radical opinions as facts. This secondary source is not reliable because it could be based on speculation and twisting of facts as there is a lack of evidence.
Even though That conflict does not impact other people's lives that it's just an obstacle that's in the way and that you have to go around it. Conflict does impacts people's lives by if someone loses their love one it can effect on how they behave around certain people and it can change on how they think of things. Conflict does not impact people's lives because there are people when something happens they ignore it. A difference that these books had was that in the book The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien the main character did not get to chose if he wanted to have some conflict in his life and in the book
The Allied victory in World War Two did not create a lasting peace as tensions arose between different ideological views. The Cold War became a period of extreme ideological challenges which attempted to enforce a new economic and political structure on the world. It is clear through Winston Churchill’s ‘Iron Curtain Speech’ that imperial struggle still existed in the world as the West saw the Soviet sphere of influence as an issue to “the safety of the world.” Stalin attempted to justify the military and USSR influence in Eastern Europe as a safety net to prevent external imperial influence. Russia’s satellite countries also allowed for the spread of imperial influence and ensure a similar event to World War Two would not occur near the USSR
He proposes four ' just titles ' justifying the conquest : The right of guardianship involves bondage or natural slavery of the Indians. It suits them for their own good undergo the Spaniards, as they are incapable of governing themselves. The need to prevent, by force , cannibalism and other unnatural behaviors practiced by the Indians.
Religion has the power to positively or negatively affect a civilization, depending on how it is practiced. Religion can often unify people because everyone agrees on a higher power, but it can also cause conflict when people all believe that their religion is the only “correct” one. Ancient civilizations, such as the Islamic and Mauryan Empires have been impacted by religion. Religion also impacts different regions today, especially Iran.
The idea of a unified society, living peacefully with all the differences in the world stemmed from Kwame Appiah’s book Cosmopolitanism (2006). Thus, the idea of cosmopolitanism is that everyone is a “citizen of the world” (Appiah 14). Which means, no matter the cultural differences everyone is to live within the same standards and guidelines. When evaluating the plausibility of a cosmopolitan society, one should think of the coexistence of different cultures and ways of living. In considering this idea, there is a mass amount of culture clashes, or culture wars, throughout history.
Just imagine, you and your loved ones sitting together listening to the radio when suddenly there’s an alarming news bulletin about an alien invasion. Would you fall for such an obscene lie? No? Well 32 million people did.
Since all modern states are nation states and under the umbrella of nation state, all the institutions, relevant offices, state policies and individual’s views should be on the same page or else otherwise the power, i.e. the one who’s responsibility is to maintain the state’s writ, i.e. the military would go and crush all the hurdles in order to preserve the state’s ideological as well as the geographical territory. The international law recognizes that the state can utilize its resources for the sake of its sovereignty within the given territory. If we take an example of our country, we find that despite of having diverse ethnical and cultural backgrounds we are still a modern nation state only because of religion. But the thing is that if we really want to form a modern state then we need to keep religion separate from the state since the very idea of modern state is to keep the state
n the reading of Jihad Vs. McWorld, Barber focuses on the relationship between Jihad and McWorld, and suggests that the world, as it is being squeezed between these opposing forces, is moving away from conscious and collective human control and toward anarchy. Jihad is driven by parochial hatreds and aims to re-create subnational and ethnic borders from within the nation-state. McWorld universalizes markets and effectively makes borders porous from without. Both, therefore, “make war on the sovereign nation-state and thus undermine the nation-state’s democratic institutions.”
Isabel Clements Modern Middle East History 10/19/15 Nationalism as a Political Strategy throughout the 20th Century Over the past hundred years nationalism has been utilized, and often succeeded, as a political tactic. An ideology grounded in the allegiance to one’s nation, nationalism is a semi-physical but primarily abstract concept. In order for a leader to be able to use Nationalism to their benefit, it is crucial that a nation is familiarized with the demeanor of the ideology. For nationalism to be an effective political move, a nation must ideally have recently suffered a blow to national pride, be in possession of a potential scapegoat, and have in mind an ideal society that requires progression to reach.
Journal 4 You’re all alone the only person you have in your life is your younger brother because your mom is a drug addict that is never home and your dad left you when you were young, how do you feel? This happens to Ian McDermott and his little brother Sammy. When Sammy was born his father left them and that was when their mother became a drug addict. Ian has to take care of Sammy because their mother isn’t going to watch over him.
The author gives a view on the religions in the global context. 5. Topic Sentence: The contemporary world today combines a wide diversity of world religions and in order to preserve peace people ought to display high level of mutual tolerance.