and answer that everyone does but no one seems to know the explanation: why some nations fail but other are successful? As we saw on the last reading of Huntington‚ political institutions are the primary responsible for the economic growth and success in a nation‚ in the book Political Order in Changing Societies by the author Samuel P. Huntington is clearly expressed that countries like Great Britain and the United States had adaptable coherent political institutions as well as effective bureaucracies
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Huntington was the most important foreign policy intellectual in the United States during the 1990’s. Huntington saw that despite the economic and cultural globalization‚ forceful resistance remained. Divisions among people tend to be predominantly cultural. Principal conflicts of global politics occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. According to Huntington‚ the clash of civilizations will dominate global politics‚
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For the Abrahamic religions of Islam and Christianity‚ once the prophets had passed away‚ the burden of religious leadership fell on the shoulders of the Sunni Caliphate and the Church respectively. Since women had been given unprecedented significance by the Prophets Jesus and Muhammad‚ it became inevitable for the Church and the Sunni Caliphate to deal with the issue of the status of women. (Here Church refers to the Church in the first two centuries after crucifixion of Jesus till approx 200 C
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Impact of Modernization on Indian society Indian society is very old and surviving even after many ups and down and social issues. This article involves a brief about the Indian society and impact of the social process of modernization and westernization on it. How the Indian society has implemented these both processes and to what extent. Society is a platform that gives a shape to the people’s livings‚ demands‚ aspirations‚ needs and all kinds of growths. When numerous people having diverse mindsets
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Who was Samuel P. Huntington? Huntington was born in New York City and graduated as a student from Yale university with distinction at the age of 18. He served the U.S. army and earned his Ph.D. at Harvard university‚ where he also started his career as a professor. His first major book was The soldier and the state‚ which is regarded today as the most influential book on American military relations. During the late seventies‚ he was the White house co-ordinator of security planning for the NSC
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to improve gender relations within non-Western societies through helping Third World countries develop. However this development process is firmly rested within the dualistic modernization framework which produces binary oppositions that limit both thought and practice. Feminist theories that work within this modernization discourse are thus inevitably positioned opposite to each other as demonstrated by the ‘Western’ liberal WID approach versus the Marxist/structuralist GAD ideology. Hence this
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Civilization? Modernization and Westernization Chapter 4: The fading of the West: Power‚ Culture‚ and Indigenization What is the author’s claim? The author claims that the notion of universal civilization that occurred directed itself to a result of dominance of the western civilization. He looks at the rise of languages and religions‚ but more for Islam. He also shows the difference between westernization and modernization. Universal civilization could emerge through modernization. Through increased
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Edward Said has argued that the Orient was “almost a European invention” and crucial to the colonial project. Samuel Huntington argues that the world is being driven towards an evitable “clash” between essential cultural differences. What do race/ethnicity‚ culture and difference have to do with global capitalism? Global capitalism is the key to how society operates today. The impact that global capitalism has created relies much on the past in relation to race‚ ethnicity‚ culture and differences
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consumers will choose to bring back old values to contain or in an effort to halt the westernizing of their culture. Harvard Professor Samuel Huntington agrees that globalization will cause a renewed interest in local traditions. In his article‚ “The Clash of Civilizations and Remaking of World Order” (Simon & Schuster‚ 1997)‚ he opined that modernization encourages local social confidence and a resurgence of
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Midterm: Part 1: Explain terms Part 2: Short Questions The Making of the Third World How was Europe able to expand its empire and dominate “non-Europe”? Europe: decentralized; non-Europe: centralized Rise of capitalism Different periods of colonization Caribbean/Americas – 1550s > India and rest of Asia – 1750 > Africa – 1884 (Berlin Conference) The emergence of mercantilism (= commercialism - 李嘉誠主義) (“buy cheap‚ sell dear”) Break from mercantilism - rise of industrial capitalism >1760 Defining
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