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S.S 1.4 (Clashes of civilisations - Huntington) Flashcards

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A new era of politics during the Cold War

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Ideologies were the reason for conflict between civilisations.
Communism vs. capitalism.
Afterwards dramatic changes were noticed in people’s identities and symbols of those identities.

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Global politics

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Began to reconfigured along cultural lines.

Western vs Eastern.

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A new era of politics have patterns of

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Cohesion.
Disintegration.
Conflict between civilisation that forms the world.

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Culture

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The ideas, customs and social behaviour of a particular society.
Way of life.

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Behaviours are determined by

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Thinking.
Ideologies.
Beliefs.
Norms.

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Culture affects

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Political and economic development.

This differs from civilisation to civilisation.

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After WW2 and the Cold War countries with similar identity came together to foster

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Self-determinate.

Fight against Globalism.

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Huntington argues that these play a role in conflict

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Religion.

Culture (the most).

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Countries that differ ideologically but who share the same cultural values are more likely to

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Join together in conflict.

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Differences between civilisations are based on

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Values.
Social relations.
Habits.

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7/8 Different major civilisations

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Chinese.
Japanese.
Hindu.
Islamic.
Orthodox.
Latin-American.
Western.
African (not always).
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Huntington argues that conflict between cultures forms the world. This is a

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Social constructive idea, people create themselves.
Cultures are in conflict because they are competing of their own self, constructed existence.
Freedom and identity are important.

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Concepts that seek each other out

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Freedom.
Self-creation.
Conflict.

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Created a picture of plurality of identities that want to be

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Autonomous.

Free of each other.

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Paradigms in our world leave out a lot of detail because

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It creates a oversimplifies view of the world.

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We still need a view of the world to orientate us because

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It helps us to find a way in a see of information that leads to confusion.

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We still need to be aware of the dangers a simplified world view can lead to because

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It determines how we interpret the reality.

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5 Paradigms

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1) We have become one world.
2) The 184 states.
3) Us against them.
4) State boundries weaken which cause chaos.
5) Conflict between 7/8 civilisations.

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1) We have become one world

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The end of the Cold War = end of ideological structure.
Only the Western liberal democracy remains.
Still ethnical conflicts arose.

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2) The 184 states

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States still play a role in world business and trade in order to promote their own interests.
States also form alliances with other states that share their own culture.

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3) Us against them

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Poor vs rich.
Western culture against the rest of the world cultures.
The poor still connot defend themselves from the rich.

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4) State boundries weaken which cause chaos between

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A multitude of ethnical and religious that further leads to conflict.
World in not in a full state of chaos.

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5) Conflict between 7/8 civilisations

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The nation-state still plays a role, but the determining factor is culture.
Main focus is on the conflicts between the civilisations.
Suggests, integration, fragmentation, conflict.

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Paradigm (description)

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An example or pattern.

Representative of a change.

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Phenomena

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Fact or occurrence that is perceived.

What the sense or mind notice.

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Technology and globalism spread

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Lasted during the changes that the Cold War brought.

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Euphoria

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Feeling of over-confidence pr over-optimism.

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Harmony

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Peace.
Serene.
Quietness.

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New War by

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The Muslims.

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Dar-al-Islam

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Abode of peace.

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Dar-al-Harb

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Abode of war.

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The rich are

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Developed and modern countries.

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The poor are

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Under-developed.
Developing.
Traditional countries.

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Survival of the fittest

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States protecting themselves against one another.

35
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More alliance

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Bi-literals.

Economic partnership.

36
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Trust based on shared

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Language.
Culture.
Religion.
Values institutions.

37
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International power assuming the right to judge

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International institution performing state duties.

Bureaucracy booms.

38
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A new image of the world (9)

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Breakdown of government authority.
Breakup of states.
Intensification of tribal ethic.
Religious conflict.
Emergence of International Criminal mafias.
Refugees multiplying.
Proliferation of nuclear weapons.
Spread of terrorism.
Prevalence of massacres and ethic cleansing.
39
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5 distinctions of civilisations of today

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1) Civilisation in the singular and plural form.
2) Civilisation and cultural entity.
3) Civilisation and the most comprehensive culture identity.
4) Civilisations are prone to change, but still exist for long periods of time.
5) Cultural and politics.

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Singular

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A set standard that can be used to measure civilisations.

Civilised or uncivilised.

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Plural

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People became more aware that there are many ways that ‘civilised’ can be measured.
Huntington focusses on the plural.

42
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Civilisations now also include (6)

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Culture values.
Norms.
Institutors.
Way of thinking.
Language.
Religion.
43
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Almost no distinction between

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Material and higher intellectual.

Moral factors.

44
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Religion was the most important because

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Big civilisations are usually associated with a specific religion.

45
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Becoming united with another civilisation is not possible because

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Of the differences in culture identity.

46
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Within a civilisation many identity differences are possible but

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Everyone still identifies with one civilisation.

47
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Civilisation and their cultures are dynamic but

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They are prone to change over time.

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Civilisations are cultural entities and not

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Political entities.

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Political composition of civilisation

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Differ from civilisation to civilisation.

Even within a civilisation over time.

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Huntington admits that her uses reductionism that makes him

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Vulnerable to criticism in terms of ideology.

51
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Huntington gives a (critical remark)

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Oversimplified.

Eschewed perspective of the world.

52
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3 Questions (critical remark)

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1) Is the conflict of a cultural nature?
2) Is Huntington the opposite of globalists?
3) Which one is better?

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