Ebrima,
Thanks for forwarding the essay.It was not only
interesting but equally educative as well.
Daffeh

--- Ebrima Ceesay <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
> Gambia-L:
>
> The essay below is reproduced/reprinted from today's
> issue of the U.K based
> "Sunday Times" Newspaper. It was written in 1993 by
> Professor Samuel P.
> Huntington of Harvard University when he predicted
> the present conflict that
> our world is witnessing today.
>
> By the way, for those of you who do not know Samuel
> Huntington - well, he is
> one of most respected Political Scientists in the
> the world. He has written
> numerous books on International Politics. In fact,
> one doesn't study Third
> World or International Politics without coming
> across his many works.
>
> So read on!
>
> Ebrima Ceesay
>
>
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>
>
> In an uncannily prescient essay in 1993, Samuel P
> Huntington predicted the
> present conflict:
>
>
> THE CLASH OF CIVILISATIONS (By Professor Samuel P.
> Huntington)
>
>
> World politics is entering a new phase, and
> intellectuals have not hesitated
> to proliferate visions of what it will be - the end
> of history, the return
> of traditional rivalries between nation states, and
> the decline of the
> nation state from the conflicting pulls of tribalism
> and globalism, among
> others. Each of these visions catches aspects of the
> emerging reality. Yet
> they all miss a central aspect of what global
> politics is likely to be in
> the coming years.
>
> It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of
> conflict in this new
> world will not be primarily ideological nor
> primarily economic. The great
> divisions among humankind and the dominating source
> of conflict will be
> cultural. Nation states will remain the most
> powerful actors in world
> affairs, but the principal conflicts of global
> politics will occur between
> nations and groups of different civilisations. The
> fault lines between
> civilisations will be the battle lines of the
> future.
>
> Conflict between civilisations will be the latest
> phase in the evolution of
> conflict in the modern world. For a century and a
> half after the emergence
> of the modern international system with the Peace of
> Westphalia in 1648, the
> conflicts of the western world were largely among
> princes-emperors, absolute
> monarchs and constitutional monarchs attempting to
> expand their
> bureaucracies, their a

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