Wednesday, September 8, 2010

The Clash of Civilizations: “Green” vs. “Red, White & Blue”
GreeenIsm item by Marita K. Noon

“Our civilization is not indestructible: it needs to be actively defended”—so said a recent Wall Street Journal article highlighting the “Huntingtonian model” as laid out in the classic work of late Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington: Clash of Civilizations. In short, the idea is that “a civilization-based world order is emerging in which states that share cultural affinities will cooperate with each other and group themselves around the leading states of their civilization.” The three main civilizations are Western, Muslim, and the Confucian—with the West declining in power.

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