CLASH OF CIVILISATION

CLASH OF
CIVILISATION
ITS IMPACTS IN IR

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
DEPARTMENT
PRESIDENT UNIVERSITY
2015

WHAT ARE WE DISCUSSING?
FIRST TERM

SECOND TERM

• AN UNDERSTANDING OF
THE SUBJECT
• THE POLITIC OF IDENTITY
• THE HISTORY AND THE
FOUNDER
• THE CLASH IN IR – THE
EVIDENCE OF REALISM
• THE FAULT LINES OF THE
CLASH
• REVIEW

• THE OPPONENT
• THE STORIES OF
CLASH
• THE CLASH IN THE
AGE OF SECURITY

THE HISTORY RE-TELLS

INDIAN
WAR

CRUSADE
WAR

CARTHAGE VS
ROME
AZTEC
AZTEC
EXTINCTION
EXTINCTION
PERSIAN X
GREEK

BATTLE
OF
TOURS

THE OLD LEGACY OF REALISM

HUNTINGTO
HUNTINGTO
N
N

BALKAN
BALKAN

911

SRILANKA
WAR

RWANDA
RWANDA

FINALLY RETURN ?

POLITIC OF IDENTITY 1
 ASCENDANCY OF EUROPEAN POWERS  COLONISATION
OVER THE REST OF WORLD
 MODERNISATION-WESTERNISATIONMARKET
CAPITALISM INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION  DIVISION OF
CLASS
 LIBERALISM  INDIVIDUALISM DECLINE OF
‘COMMUNITY’; THE RISE OF ‘ASSOCIATIVE’ SOCIETY
DOWNGRADING COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES
 SOCIAL CONSERVATISM CALLED FOR A REINFORCEMENT
OF TRADITIONAL VALUES, OFTEN ROOTED IN ETHNICITY
AND RELIGION
 IDENTITY IS LINKED TO ‘PARTICULARISM’  CULTURE,
ETHNICITY, LOCALITY, RELIGION

POLITIC OF IDENTITY 2
• SOCIAL CONSERVATISM  THE BELIEF
THAT SOCIETIES SHOULD BE BASED
ON A BEDROCK OF SHARED VALUES,
NORMS, ETHICS, AND A COMMON
CULTURES; PROVIDING A NECESSARY
SOCIAL ADHESION;
• IDENTITIY  A RELATIVE STABLE AND
ENDURING SENSE OF SELFHOOD, CAN
BE EITHER PERSONAL, OR COMMUNAL

THE
THE SOURCES
SOURCES OF
OFGROWTH
GROWTH
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•

•

PERCEPTION ON LIBERAL UNIVERSALISM-CULTURAL
IMPERIALISM AS A SOURCE OF OPPRESSION,
MARGINALIZING AND DEMORALISING SUB-ORDINATE
GROUPS AND PEOPLES  IDENTITY POLITICS AS A
REACTION
AND A SOURCE OF LIBERATIONEMPOWERMENT MARGINALIZED GROUPS;  SEE AT
POST-COLONIALISM THOUGHTS
FAILURE OF SOCIALISM-COMMUNISM IN ADDRESSING
SOCIAL-ECONOMIC PROBLEMS IN WORLD SOCIETY 
A FIASCO OF CLASSLESS SOCIETY
GLOBALISATION  IDENTITIES AS A FORM OF
RESISTANCE AGAINST CULTURAL GLOBALISATION;
ASSOCIATIVE