Samuel Huntington asserts in his 1996 book "The Clash of the Civilisation and the Making of a New World Order" that conflicts of the future will not be on the traditional grounds of economic power or ideology but on cultural grounds. The new fault line in world conflicts will be clashing civilisations. Further, Huntington asserts that the major division, and major conflict of the future, will be that between the west and ‘the rest' of the world. To examine this hypothesis we will address the social, economic and military/strategic worthiness of this statement.

The Cold War provided some comfort to political scientists, especially those realists who believe in the need for balance of power in international relations. This bi-polar world was comparatively easy to study, but with the fall of the Soviet block, what shape does the world take from here? We currently live in US hegemony, and for the moment it appears as though hegemonic stability holds true, despite several small......

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Title: The Clash Of Civilisations - Discuss
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Approximate Pages: 11 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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