(Clash of civilizations – Samuel Huntington)
Review: Ayman Qassem Alrefai
After reading the book I find myself wondering: ( is the author put forward the idea of a clash of civilizations, or is it predetermined idea is necessitated the existence of this book.)
In how analytical deep and see historic large cannot be overlooked at all, Samuel Huntington displays axes and adversaries of the global conflicts, especially during the Cold War and beyond , offering some special characteristics from those cultures or civilizations conflicting or opposing , or even those allied and called influential, and digressions to highlight the cultural and civilizational side and superior influence on which side is willing to civilization to which he belongs, and the accusation and the attack on those that hated , armed with nothing of self-criticism for his own ” West ” so characterized his speech, also of neutrality and objectivity.
But despite real admiration for the political analysis of some events and expertise with properties of civilizations that are talked about, Huntington is unaware of civilizations and it’s nature talked about more than he knows.
But the emphasis is tried several key points, namely the goal that found for him the book:
– Superiority of Western civilization and its universality, and the desperate attempt to show as one civilization superior cosmic and bonds and the ingredients are not owned by other so possessed influence property that are lacking in other civilizations.
– The next phase of the conflict (المزيد…)
