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1. IS A CLASH OF CIVILIZATION RESHAPING WORLD POLITICS
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CIVILIZATION
2. DEFINITATIONS
There are several definitions provided by historians and sociologist, that define civilization as -
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IS A CLASH OF CIVILIZATION RESHAPING WORLD POLITICS
- CLASH: an inconvenient coincidence
of timing of events or activities.
- According to the Oxford English
Dictionary; it defines CIVILIZATION
as; The stage of human social
development and organization
which is considered most advanced.
- POLITICS: activities aimed at
improving someone’s status or
increasing power within an
organisation
3. BRIEF HISTORY
In order to understand, the clash of civilization reshaping world politics; a brief history
offers an understanding of what is current today and what is ahead in the future.
PRE – MODERN WORLD CIVILIZATIONS
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Chinese
Egyptian
Western
4. EVOLUTION OF CIVILIZATION – major contemporary civilizations
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Western
African
Islamic
Hindu -
Indian
Latin American
Sinic - Chinese
Japanese
Orthodox - Russian
5. IS THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATION RESHAPING WORLD POLITICS
* Overtime the clash of civilizations has greatly reshaped world politics, for example;
it was the religious wars ( 30 years war in Europe ) that provided the Westphalia
treaty of 1684, this development clearly demonstrates that the clash of civilizations (
religious ) resulted into the reshaping of world politics into an international concept.
* It is also witnessed that the clash of civilizations reshapes world politics, for
example; after the second World War, the emergence of the Cold War between two
super powers – the Soviet Union and the United States was mostly ideological,
therefore the clash of ideological concepts of communism vs capitalism was a clash
of different civilizations ( Orthodox vs Western ). This also demonstrates a clash of
civilization and how it can reshape world politics.
6. CONCLUSION
Despite the superior empires of the
orient, and several civilizations, the West
is the only civilizations that has had
dominance over the rest propelled by
scientific revolution, enlightenment, and
industry.
The change of economic dominance especially in
China provides a challenge in the economic
balance within the global market – it is
increasingly seen that this emergence has
impacted on global affairs in respect of trade
and investment within the developing world as
well as the developed world – this one impact
alone clearly shows that the clash of civilizations
can reshape world politics, this may also result
in how domestic and international issues of a
nation are addressed, either politically, socially
or economically, but most importantly the
adaptation and maintaining of cultural values
plays a major role that may not be readily visible
7. References
• Niall Ferguson (2011) Civilization: the West and the Rest: Penguin
• Samuel. P. Huntington Simon and Schuster ( 1996 ) the clash of
Civilizations and the remaking of world order;
Editor's Notes
Slide 1:
The history of civilization dates back many centuries, with various civilization clashes; for example ( Catholics and Protestants ), but particularly common among Islamic and non – Islamic civilizations especially during the early introduction of Islam into Europe ( Ottoman Turks ).
The word “civilization” is a French word that was first used by the French economist ; Anne – Robert – Jacques Turgot in 1752
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“a space, a ’cultural area’” “a collection of cultural characteristics and phenomena”.
Braudel
“a particular concatenation of world view, customs, structures, and culture ( both materiel culture and high culture ) which coexists ( if not always simultaneously ) with other varieties of this phenomena”.
Wallerstein
“a particular fundamental process of culture creativity which is the work of a particular people”.
Dawson
According to the Oxford English Dictionary; it defines civilization as; The stage of human social development and organization which is considered most advanced
Most notable among the definitions is the central theme of culture
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Pre modern civilizations * WESTERN, * INDIAN ( Indus ), * CHINESE ( Sinic ), * BYZANTINE ( East Greek ), * ISLAM. Other vanished pre modern civilizations include: * MESOPOTAMIA, * EGYPTIAN, * CREATAN, and * MIDDLE AMERICA ( Andean ).
The majority of pre modern civilizations contributed to the emergence of contemporary civilizations through a variety of developments and over a period of time either through Kingdoms or Empires and Dynasties, for example: Western civilization went through various periods of time from the; Renaissance – 14 -17 century, the Reformation – 15 – 17 century, the Enlightenment, the industrial revolution, the Scientific revolutions, and the introduction of Liberal Democracy.
The Chinese civilization considered to be the worlds oldest and cradle of civilization experienced dynasties each with various experiences in areas such as; Philosophy, literary, writing, art / poetry, and technology.
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Civilization is about cities, the success of a civilization is the ability of providing a quality of life of it’s citizens and that quality has many dimensions not easily quantified. However the civilization is the single largest unit of human organisation, and practical a human response to their environment, challenges such as; shelter, feeding, defence, culture and not always religion. What distinguishes civilizations may be urged in terms of knowledge than others in fields such as; science, technology, mathematics, astronomy – most civilizations practiced some of the above, but hoe these were practiced and encouraged made a difference in which civilization was most successful than the other, for example institutions that associated ideas and behaviour within a competitive environment for the advancement of science, medicine and property rights.
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The interaction between these civilization with one another has been among the most important historical changes – resulting in to cultural adaptations and interactions or exchanges, - impact within the consumer society, capitalism and freedom / democracy adaptations and interpretations. Globally there has been an increase in the interaction of civilizations, this historic interaction clearly shows that civilizations can and will reshape world politics, noting that current civilizations have also been able to maintain their identities despite outside influences.
The clash of civilization is nothing new in the world – According to Huntington ( 1996 ) culture and religious conflict is the main post cold war civilization clash. Another example can be seen as regards to Turkey a predominately Muslim country ( Islamic ) with liberal politics ( Western ), separately a clash o0f civilization results into conflict such as the; Greek Cypriot and Turkish conflict.
Other civilization clashes can be witnessed in Russia ( Orthodox ) and the Chechnya ( Muslim ) interestingly Russia deals with Iran ( Islamic ) in order to control violence in Chechnya and trade in oil.
The Chinese ( Sinic ) cooperate with Iran, and Pakistan ( Islamic ) for international presences.
Many pre- modern civilizations were bloody, but most managed to preserve and build on heritage and cultural projects, well as current civilization clashes are mostly based on culture or religious tendencies, they are also very destructive without any contribution, for example the damaging of historical cities, artefacts and historical or heritage sites in conflict areas.
The most recent clash of civilization is the emergence of terror groups such as Isis that are dividing the world along religious ideology
