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Murphey reviews 'The Clash of Civilizations' by Samuel Huntington.

Nach dem Ende des Ost-West-Konflikts werden die globalen Konfliktlinien nicht ideologisch, sondern kulturell geprägt sein. Die verschiedenen Zivilisationen, die sich durch eine eigene Geschichte, Identität, Sprache, Religion und kulturelle Grundwerte elementar voneinander unterscheiden, werden zukünftig in Opposition zueinander stehen. Die westlichen Demokratien bilden dabei unter der Führung der letzten Supermacht, den USA, eine der bedeutendsten Zivilisationen, die die globale Politik beeinflussen. Doch die konfuzianischen und islamischen Staaten gewinnen zunehmend an Bedeutung. Der Westen sollte möglichst breite und tragfähige Allianzen schließen und einen friedlichen Umgang mit anderen Zivilisationen anstreben. Er muß aber auch auf eine möglichen Konflikt vorbereitet sein. (SWP-Krh)

Aus islamischer Sicht

Going through a protracted period of transition since the end of the Cold War, the world order in the making is neither what was nor what it is yet to become. It is in "the middle of the future."To get our bearings in this uncertain transition, we explore the two grand post‐Cold War narratives—"The End of History" as posited by Francis Fukuyama and "The Clash of Civilizations" posited by the late Samuel Huntington. Mikhail Gorbachev looks back at his policies that brought the old order to collapse. The British philosopher John Gray critiques the supposed "universality" of liberalism and, with Homi Bhabha, sees a world of hybrid identities and localized cultures. The Singaporean theorist Kishore Mahbubani peels away the "veneer" of Western dominance. Amartya Sen, the economist and Nobel laureate, assesses whether democratic India or autocratic China is better at building "human capacity" in their societies.

This article analyses the war between the Russian Federation and Ukraine in the light of Huntington's theory of the clash of civilisations. In his text, Huntington stated, "If civilization is what counts, however, the likelihood of violence between Ukrainians and Russians should be low". After the full-scale aggression of Russia against Ukraine, it is clearly visible that Huntington was completely wrong. This does not, however, falsify Huntington's entire concept, which nevertheless requires modification in the form of a new delimitation and naming of civilisations – there is no "Slavic-Orthodox civilisation", but rather a "Eurasian civilisation". These corrections, based on Oskar Halecki's research, lead to the conclusion that Huntington's theory is applicable in the case of the Russia-Ukraine war, with Ukraine being a Huntingtonian "torn country" that has decided to finally leave the Eurasian civilisation, while Russia is trying to prevent it.

If ever proof were needed of Samuel Huntington's idea that "relations between societies in the coming decades are most likely to reflect their cultural commitments" it can be found in Ayaan Hirsi Ali's experience as a woman standing up against traditional Islamic culture while living in Europe.In this section, both Samuel Huntington and Ayaan Hirsi Ali discuss the continuing clash of cultures in what Hirsi Ali calls our "age of confrontation."