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Samuel Huntington Current World Order

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The current world order may be described through the perspectives of Huntington, Mearsheimer and Zakaria. These three ideologists argued how fighting for, maintaining and continuing to have power shape the world and put states in their rightful place. With the application of mainstream theories of international relations, the current world order will be illustrated throughout this paper. Samuel Huntington made a hypothesis on what the new world order may be after the Cold War. Since after the said conflict, civilizations were separated not just because of ideological differences but also because each was defined by culture. And since there are differences in the norms and beliefs of the states and nations, new conflicts took place. To better understand the collisions, Huntington made a paradigm to better explain his hypothesis. According to Huntington, one needs a map that both portrays reality and simplifies …show more content…

It also will, considering the changes that can take place in challenger states. Because of modernization and globalization, the influence of the West will wane down. Other civilizations would have bravery in setting their own standards and pushing up their own cultures. Soon, another power will thrive and the west would be just one of the stepping stones for that power to flourish internationally. That is why the West is alarmed by these developing states, such as China. For China is no doubt a big challenger. With the influence of the US and the originality and ingenuity of Asia, China would have bigger influence than the Americas if given the chance. China has shown its capability in competing economically, geographically and militarily and this is something that alarms the whole world. This disturbs the West’s peace as of course, it had strived to get to the top and would want to keep its place at the top and not be replaced by another

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