Critical Analysis Of Samuel Huntington's The Clash Of Civilization

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Register to read the introduction… His ideology stating that Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism will clash within civilizations, especially Islam with the west cannot be used to characterize the 9/11 attacks, nor the international reactions that followed as the clash of civilizations. I also feel on the other hand, that Huntington’s framework of the article has been accurate with the other aspects of the global politics today, such as the global dominance of the west over the non-western countries by power and influence, through economic trades, foreign policies and many other notions that bind the two together avoiding the clash of civilizations. Therefore, I believe that although some of Huntington’s ideologies are flawed, but there are many things that he has predicted to be accurate in today’s

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