An Extension of Samuel Huntington's Clash of Civilizations

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This article is an extension to Samuel Huntington’s "The Clash of Civilizations"(1) therefore it will be important to briefly brush on Huntington’s article. Huntington claims that culture is the divisive factor between “Western Christianity” and “Orthodox Christianity and Islam”. Huntington also argues that the Islamic world lacks the essential political values profound in Western civilization: rule of law, separation of state and religion, protection of individual rights and civil liberties and the fruits democracy bear.

The authors reside to the World Values Survey (WVS) conducted in 95-96 and 00-02 to test and discuss Huntington’s thesis. They also included that Huntington was half right; gender equality and sexual liberalization alongside culture are all to be considered the fault lines between the two civilizations. The importance of women in the labour force is echoed by quoting the UN Development programme, “no society can achieve the desired state of well-being and human development, or compete in a globalizing word, if half its people remain marginalized and disempowered.” The authors believe that because it is imperative to have gender equality and sexual liberalization so a society can achieve the desired state of well-being, the Muslim world will find this contradicting and conflicting to its values and principles and therefore democracy may not be sustainable.

Huntington claims that the virtues of Western democracies, those such as civil liberties and constitutionalism, are not profound in non-Western societies. Western efforts to promote such values are often met with violent criticism. Inglehart and Norris decided to put this theory to test by categorizing the countries in the WVS to nine major contemporary ...

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Works Cited

Samuel Huntington "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order" Simon & Schuster, 2011.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/1993-06-01/clash-civilizations

MICHAEL L. ROSS "Oil, Islam, and Women" University of California, Los Angeles. Web 6 July 2015.

http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FPSR%2FPSR102_01%2FS0003055408080040a.pdf&code=9ff5d832f275ea1c892e95a86818a91c

Ronald Inglehart; Pippa Norris "The True Clash of Civilizations" Foreign Policy, No. 135. (Mar. - Apr., 2003), pp. 62-70.

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0015-7228%28200303%2F04%290%3A135%3C62%3ATTCOC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A

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