Compare and Contrast of the Arguments in Huntingtons The...

Samuel Huntington has made famous his thesis the clash of civilizations, which was developed in his article in Foreign Affairs in 1993 and in the book that followed, in which the author expanded his thesis and reaffirmed the validity of his theory after the success and controversy that followed the publication of his article. In fact, the â€Å"civilizational† approach of conflicts today is now intrinsically linked to a comprehensive theory of international relations, which Samuel Huntington has developed by giving it an important value and a dominant paradigm Reacting to the theory of Fukuyama, Samuel P. Huntington resumed the expression Clash of civilizations in 1993 and speculates that it is mainly cultural and religious identities†¦show more content†¦The current evolution of the world after the Cold War led to the assertion of multiple civilizations; The balance of power among civilizations changes and the relative influence of the Midwest declines, while the non-Western civilizations reaffirm the value of their own culture. Samuel Huntington sees an emerging world organized on the basis of civilizations. Societies that share cultural affinities cooperate with each other and the efforts to force a society into another civilization will fail; countries gather around the leading States of their civilization. This description of the process of new structures of international relations that Huntington sees developing, leads him to consider that the greatest risks of violence and confrontation lie in the Westerns’ claims to universality, which are leading them to increasingly get into conflict with other civilizations, particularly Islam and China; local conflicts, especially between Muslims and non-Muslims, generate new alliances and lead to an escalation of violence, which will usually lead the dominant states to make an attempt to stop them. On the other hand, Edward Said argues that the concept of clash of civilizations is a myth whose purpose is to justify an aggressive attitude in the minds of American and form a base for American and Western aggression against China and the Islamic world and culture. Beyond the paradigmatic character of his