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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
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u/Veganpuncher · 9 pointsr/PoliticalScience
u/hashtagpls · 5 pointsr/Sino

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By Steven WardMay 4 at 7:00 AM

On Tuesday, the Washington Examiner reported the State Department’s policy planning staff, led by Director Kiron Skinner, is “preparing for a clash of civilizations” with China. Skinner’s office is composing what it calls “Letter X” — styled after George Kennan’s “X Article” that laid out an argument for containing the Soviet Union during the first years of the Cold War.

The Examiner’s description of the State Department’s thinking contains remarkable details. Skinner describes great power competition with China as “a fight with a really different civilization and a different ideology, and the United States hasn’t had that before.” China “poses a unique challenge … because the regime in Beijing isn’t a child of Western philosophy and history.” The Cold War constituted “a fight within the Western family,” while the coming conflict with China is “the first time that we will have a great power competitor that is not Caucasian.”

[No, China and the U.S. aren’t locked in an ideological battle. Not even close.]

Skinner is right that “you can’t have a policy without an argument underneath it.” But the argument that seems to be informing U.S. China policy is deeply flawed and dangerous.

Has the United States never competed with a great power whose ideology or civilization was dramatically different from ours?

Skinner’s claim that China is the United States’ first ideologically distinct great power competitor is wrong. For one thing, it is not at all clear that such an ideology is central to Sino-American competition. For another, this mangles history. Nazi Germany is an obvious counterexample. The Soviet Union is a second. Skinner has written extensively on President Ronald Reagan, who would be surprised to learn that American competition with the U.S.S.R. — the “evil empire” — did not involve ideological differences.

To Skinner, the Cold War did not constitute a conflict of civilization because it took place within the “Western family.” She takes her cue from Samuel Huntington’s ideas about the “clash of civilizations.” But those ideas do not stand up to scrutiny. The concept of “civilization” lacks empirical support. Also, the enterprise of classifying countries according to dominant civilizations ignores the variety and contingency of identities, treating some as fixed or natural while erasing others. Nor is it clear that Russia was ever understood (or understood itself) as a fully Western or European nation.

Fortunately, Skinner offers a further clue about what she means. China, she notes, is the first great power competitor that the United States has faced that is “not Caucasian.” In the end, the argument is not about ideology or civilization. It is about race. China — unlike Russia — is not predominantly white, and thus must be dealt with differently.

Before World War II, Japan came to believe it wouldn’t be treated equally in world politics because of Western racial attitudes.

But the claim that the United States has never faced a non-Caucasian great power competitor is also wrong. Japan before World War II was a great power rival and was understood as racially different.

u/rapscalian · 5 pointsr/IRstudies

The obvious example that comes to mind is Samuel Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order.

Another excellent book is Michael Mazarr's Unmodern Men in the Modern World: Radical Islam, Terrorism, and the War on Modernity.

You may also be interested in some of the Islamic perspectives:

u/Religious_Redditor · 4 pointsr/Ask_Politics

There are two main things that conservatives hate about globalism: (1) its penchant for centralizing power at the global level and (2) the premise that all cultures are of equal value.

Conservatives hate #1 because we believe that government functions best/legitimately at as local a level as possible. We distrust the consolidation of power that happens under nationalist/globalist regimes because it is inefficient and likely to be used to trample on people's rights. Local institutions are more accountable to, and better able to solve the unique problems of, the community they represent.

We hate #2 because we love the social and political values we've inherited from our forefathers. These values are under threat by elitist global institutions that push foreign values on unsuspecting peoples.

You may be interested in The Clash of Civilizations by Harvard professor Samuel Huntington.

u/MilerMilty · 4 pointsr/neoconNWO

It's probably considered racist by many, especially those left of centre, but according to this article in 2016 it was the fourth most read book in the top 10 US colleges so you cucks can blow me.

https://www.amazon.com/Clash-Civilizations-Remaking-World-Order/dp/1451628978

u/dassudhir · 2 pointsr/india

As the world gets more homogenised, people facing a loss of identity seek kinship with people with shared values. You can see this with radicalised Muslims. In Indian students associations in American universities.

The Clash of Civilizations is a great book if you want more information. Some parts of it have been discredited, some are outright racist, but the central premise still stands.

u/AirGuitarVirtuoso · 2 pointsr/NeutralPolitics

Honestly, I haven't come across a ton of good textbooks explaining the basics of IR theory. The Wikipedia page is a pretty good starting point for the big theoretical schools.

Neorealism and Its Critics is also a modern classic on IR theory you'd read in most college or graduate level IR courses. Waltz's Theory of International Relations is also a seminal text. Sam Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations" Article and Book were both extremely important to recent thinking on IR.

u/Bossman0101 · 1 pointr/geopolitics

> I think you have a misunderstanding of the crash. I would recommend the book courage to act from Former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke

Thanks, I'll check it out in a few months.

What I was getting at, when calling it like a Ponzi, is the idea that the solution to the last recession (I'm going to call it this now, instead of a depression, like I did before), is that the Government, just put a band-aid on the problem with QE. I think the rates are so low right now, to encourage spending, that when the next shock hits, there will be no more play room to address it other than printing more money.

Ponzi was definitely a wrong word to use, but it was the only thing that comes to mind when the current system is based on Consumption. You need more consumption in the future then you had in the past or you have a recession or a Depression. That strikes me a Ponzi, in that constant consumption is impossible, before something gives or breaks.

> globalization monetary system?

The whole shebang. Everything.

> Magic of the market. (Oil is still down)

Oil was just a random example I used, to display any variable of causes attributable to "Reasons why XYZ happened, happens, is happening" when economist or journalist try to explain how or why.

Pension system, I feel, will not be fixed. I'm more pessimistic then you are.

Health care needs to become Universal, but again, I'm more pessimistic then you are and don't think it will happen.

Refugees are what I think will cause the next "big thing". WW3? Collapse of the system..I have no idea...10 years, 20 years from now...I have no idea. I think two books, very controversial, but worth reading regarding this matter are The clash of Civilizations and Culture Matters by Samuel Huntington. Helping people help themselves is the only way to truly help someone and the manner of letting people flow undocumented into countries is not going to end well for those people or those countries.

> Each generation will adapt to the changes before it. Just like we used to have 80% workforce in agriculture. Now we have 2%. The next generation will do something else (always)

Definitely...but at what cost? Revolution? Civil War? Civil Discord? War? Change does equal Reaction....how will they react? (in general, well and good, or violently and with fear?) I guess depending on how fast the change happens will determine how violent the reaction will be.
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> Timescales. Maybe, but Whether the system collapse in 100 years or 1000 years matter. The system has thus far shown resiliency to large external shocks (2008). Idk if it will survive a ww3 though

Agreed. So long as the resiliency is Real which would lead to assuming what the Government did to solve the last shock was applying a band aid to a necessary amputation. We will see when the next shock happens, 5 10 100 or 1000 years from now

u/sammichbitch · 1 pointr/conspiracy

WWI and WWII were perfect example of white people fighting white people. It was a political and power's conflict. Now everything is settled and there is no need to acquire more power or territory in state level (at least for developed states) except for acquisition of resources. But you are also right, there was also cultural conflict going on. But now it is purely about that. You must be aware of Huntington's Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. If not then you should read it.

u/burnt_wick · 1 pointr/radiohead

Sure, I have met lots of Muslims. I live in Manhattan so I interact with Muslims every day. In my experience, they all seem to be lovely people.

I am not basing my opinion on the majority of Muslims in the world on my own limited personal experience.

I am basing my opinion on the majority of Muslims in the world on Pew Research, the gold standard in public opinion polling.


Pew did an exhaustive study where they did face to face interviews with 38,000 Muslims in 39 separate countries over the course of four years.

You can read the 200+ page report for yourself. I certainly did. I then broke down the results of their research here. It's about 20 minutes long, which is much longer than it took me to read the report.

Muslims integrate well into a Western population when they are less than 2% of the population. As the percentage of the population rises, problems arise.

I also analyzed the data collected by Samuel P. Huntington in his book The Clash of Civilizations. I also broke down his research in about 20 minutes here.

Let me know if you have any questions.

u/deakannoying · 0 pointsr/Catholicism

> I hope you recognize that this is a politically charged statement, and the implicit danger is not necessarily grounded in reality.

I do realize that, and it's the reality I saw and experienced with my own eyes in France, Germany, and Italy only last year. I was in there when a series of terror attacks were carried out.

> conservative media hysteria

Not sure about this, because I rarely go to conservative news sites, preferring to get my news from the BBC, DW, France24, AlJazeera, and RT (yes I know some are propaganda, but I like to view the US through a critical lens).

What I have noticed is that there is a notable absence of any reporting about various anti-immigrant movements throughout Europe (especially PEGIDA in Germany). We were scheduled to attend a rally in Dresden (one of my friends in DE is an activist, and was in Leipzig in 1989 too), and not a word was mentioned anywhere I could find.

> Islam vs Western Liberalism conflict is almost a sideshow compared to what really needs to be solved

They're both grave situations. I don't completely disagree with you. But it would not be acknowledging reality to dismiss what one can see with one's own eyes and hear with one's own ears.

An anecdote: looking across the Lusatian Neisse River from Zgorzelec, Poland to Görlitz, Germany, I saw dozens of full hijab-wearing women and their children lining the banks on the German side. (Zero on the Polish side.) Anyone who says this is not a full-scale invasion of Europe is deluding themselves.

Yes, there are some refugees actually in need (the aforementioned women and children), but the vast, vast majority of people I saw were bodybuilder males aged 18-35, and they comprised roaming gangs through the squares of every town and village I visited.

You mentioned that secular society doesn't share our Christian values. I agree. Secular society also usually doesn't drive trucks over people they disagree with. (Not yet, anyway.)

Let's not be disingenuous nor put our heads in the sand about what is happening -- it's a clash of civilizations that has been happening for 1300 years.

I'd love to just "get along" and not be violent, just like the Pope says. But we're to be "wise as serpents" as well.