SUMMARY - The Clash Of Civilizations And The Remaking Of World Order By Samuel P. Huntington

* Our summary is short, simple and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes.

As you read this summary, you will learn that tomorrow's conflicts will be rooted in cultural differences. Conflicts between ideological blocs inherited from the Cold War have indeed given way to the "clash of civilizations".

You will also learn :

that the history of men is the history of civilizations;

that the world has become multipolar and multicivilizational;

that economics and demography play an essential role in the evolution of civilizations;

that the world is undergoing a genuine recomposition around cultural blocks;

that civilizations extend their areas of influence in concentric circles;

that Western universalism born in the 18th century is at the end of its rope.

The West is unquestionably in decline. Caught between the dazzling development of China, a virtual superpower, and the increasingly radical contestation of its values by Islamic fundamentalism, it is no longer the undisputed beacon of planetary civilization. The essential question is whether, in this new multipolar world, the legacy of the Cold War having been liquidated, civilizations with divergent interests will be able to coexist peacefully; or whether, conversely, they are inevitably heading towards armed confrontation: a conflict of a new kind, and certainly of a violence unknown to this day; this is the real threat to world peace. 

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