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Huntington's Theories Of The Clash Of Conflicts

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Huntington’s theory is one in which the world is divided into the following major civilizations; Western, Islamic, Chinese, Japanese, Orthodox, Hindu, African and Latin. His theory of the clash of civilizations predicts alignment and wars among these civilizations. This conflict according to him is brought about by the global differences in culture and religion of these civilizations. This is his general hypothesis.
According to Huntington in the new and coming future world the most persistent, eminent and dangerous conflicts will not be between socio economic statuses, rich and poor or other economically defined groups but between people that belong to different cultural groups (1996). “Huntington saw that there was an imbalance within cultural and civilization limitations and that all have distinct cultures at different levels of cultural diversities” (1996). He defined civilization according to him as a group of individuals belonging to the broadest level of identification (1996). Huntington’s theory divides the world into four paradigms. The One world: euphoria and harmony, two worlds: us and them, the 184 states: more or less and the sheer chaos (1996). The world can only fall under one of these dividends.
This is what the critics had to say about the text. They found many faults with it, reminding us again of the much …show more content…

According to him Huntington’s journal of the clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order is about how the world is returning to a civilization dominated world where conflicts would originate in future from clashes between civilizations. Like previous critics Mr. Graham did not forget to criticize Huntington’s text of being over simple, ignoring indigenous conflicts and for the inaccurate prediction of what has happened in the decade since its publication. He continues to draw attention to how Huntington failed completely to account for native

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