1. Debate on Samul P. Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

2.  Political scientist  Born in 1927 NY  Attended Yale and Harvard  White House Coordinator of Security Planning for the National Security Council  Died at age 81

3.  A theory, that people's cultural and religious identities will be the primary source of conflict in the post-Cold War world  First formulated in a 1992 lecture  Article titled "The Clash of Civilizations?”  1996: book - The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

4.  Francis Fukuyama's 1992 book : The End of History and the Last Man.  … „but the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future.”

5.  Sinic  Japanese  Hindu  Islamic  Orthodox  Western  Latin-American

7.  Conflicts in the future along cultural and religious lines (Palestina, Israel)  Global politics is both multipolar and multicivilizational  Civilizations shape our cultural identity  We define ourselves in terms of cultures values and religion

8.  Rivalry of superpowers replaced by the clash of civilizations  Balance of power is shifting  Rediscover own values, reject those imposed on them  Drinking Cola and plotting a bomb attack  Conflicts based on religion, culture not ideology  Religion reinforcing cultural differences

9.  Religion: central defining characteristics of a civilization  „La revanche de Dieu”  Global revival of religion

10.  Organizations based on cultural commonality  Cultural commonalities shape interests  Kin country rallying

11.  Islam and it’s bloody borders  Western arrogance + Islamic intolerance  Fault line conflicts  Core state conflicts  Fight between Islam and West is a fight between Christianity and Islam

12.  The west and the rest  Survival of West depends on accepting their civilization as unique and not universal  Cooperating to maintain the multicivilizational character of global politics

13.  Paul Berman:  Conflicts rises because of philosophical beliefs  Edward Said: The clash of ignorance  Interaction of cultures is missing  False categorization of civilizations  Racist: Islam varies from country to country  Reinforces stereotypes  USA right to intervention

14. Those separated by ideology but united by culture will come together. States with similar cultures will see common interests. (East and North Korea?, Shi’ta and sunni islamists?) Religion takes the place of ideology There is no dominent culture: (Germany?) Which part of Huntington’s predicton do you think has become reality? Do you agree with the critiques?