Samuel P. Huntington's Clash Of Civilization

Samuel P. Huntington is the author of the theoretical book “Clash of civilization”, which caught people’s attention after the 11th of September attack. The book questions the future, and what will be the cause of a World War III, and who will be the next enemy of the nation after the cold – World War II. Huntington main point is that the world will not be divided by ideology or economic difference but by the cultural and ethnical differences between countries, or more specifically the West and the Muslims, which will be the cause of a Clash of Civilization. Huntington’s text is interesting but it is monolithic and many of the details are conflate, which causes confusion. Also some of the historical evidences are weak, and the writer doesn't focus on the internal
It starts by stating that the world of politics is encountering a new status, the world will change and the reason behind the change is the cultural difference. He defines civilization as “cultural entity,” (“The clash of civilization”, Huntington, 23), and then he uses it to talk about Europe: he said that Europeans will still have common similarities but their culture won’t be the same. He says that “the cultural elements of every nation is the language, history, religion, customs, institutions and by the self-identification of a person” (24) Huntington later on lists the reasons why the civilizations will clash and it is because of the division of world into “Seven or Eight major civilization” (25), which is not completely true because every person has his own identity and perspective of viewing religion, history, and politics. For example, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant “ISIS” attacks on the Shiite Muslims is not accepted by the Sunni Muslims, which shows that Muslims cannot all be defined as an Islamic civilization, while he claims it is the “the highest cultural grouping”