Clash Of Civilizations: A Flawed Theory?
The fundamental clash, according to Huntington, will be between the West on one side and the Sinic and the Islamic civilizations on the other. The conflict along the fault lines between Western and Islamic civilizations has been going on for 1,300 years. There are various factors that have contributed to intensifying the Islam-West conflict in the late 20th century. As the Cold War was drawing to an end, various intellectuals had undertaken the task of explaining and predicting post- Cold War global politics. Fukuyama and Samuel P. Huntington were such eminent scholars. Fukuyama wrote his thesis, End of History , declaring the triumph of the ideology of Liberal democracy forever. According to him, now the war of ideologies is over and there is no rival ideology of Liberal democracy forever. His argument becomes susceptible to criticism today when the whole Western world is at war with the ideology of 'terrorism' . Four years later in 1993 , Samuel P Huntington wrot...