Fukuyama's Clash Of Western Civilization

They can explain the current order by defining the world through regionalism as the west is increasing its democratic ideals through other states while the east is still embedded with cultural ideologies based on Huntington’s statements. Fukuyama stresses out that Western idea of “Democracy” has emerged victorious after the Cold War and such that man has reached its ideological evolution which is the idea of Liberalism, whose concepts is still practiced up to the present, as the final form of its government. Huntington explains in his article, Clash of Civilizations, that each current civilization is divided based on their norms and culture that defines them to be different across other regions. As he explains further, after the Cold War,

The strength of the West is not only proven in military power and security but also in the economy as well. Western countries like the United States have been dominant in the International system whereas, they are the leading forces in terms of economic policies and their interests on the global community. However, just as the west is the leading driving force of power does not mean that other civilizations such as those who are contradicting the west, will believe in their outstanding power. Mostly these civilizations will point out that they are different in terms of power because they value their security from other states. The westerners spread their ideologies of liberty, equality and freedom to the international society up to the point that the ideologies of other states are just seen as a little emphasis. Thus, this creates imperialism towards the other states that they could either balance or band-wagon their power to the Western society. Weaker states tend to band-wagon such that they will cooperate and accept its western culture in order not to be ostracized and states that have the capability for competition, balance their power to meet up the standards of military, economic and cultural

He points out the Western Liberalism is the current world order and there is no alternatives to it. The liberalist view has affected the former regimes like Japan who once believed in Fascism but after their defeat against the US, they shifted their ideals and adopted the political and economic view of Liberalism to the extent that Japan would be one of the major players of the industrial society. The Newly Industrialized Countries such as Singapore and Malaysia has also adopted the Economic Liberalism and therefore became more advanced in terms of their technology. However, he argues that the liberalist idea has affected every culture and tradition the Eastern Civilization has. China who has been protecting their Communist ideology for the past decades, are the greatest challenge that the Western Liberalist thought could ever tackle it. China has seemed to apply the liberalist approach of their economy in order to increase trade but still, their political views of their society of being a communist state, is a threat to the Democracy that the west is implying to. In the end as he stated, even though there are still fundamentalists who are challenging the western view of democracy, this ideology will still