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clash of civilizations  

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  • “The Clash of Civilizations” (1993) is the well-known work of Samuel P. Huntington, the late Harvard professor of political science, who argued that the primary cause of violent and nonviolent conflicts in the post–cold war period will be civilizational differences. Huntington defined civilization as the “highest cultural grouping of people.” While civilizations are dynamic entities and redefined with changes in the self-identification of people, they also involve objective attributes, such as language, history, customs, institutions, and especially religion, which make their differences “real.” Based on this premise, Huntington identified eight civilizations: Western, Confucian, Japanese, Islamic, Hindu, Slavic-Orthodox, Latin American and “possibly” African. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Clash of Civilizations]

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