3. What is civilization?
• cultural entity;
• some main characteristics at different levels of
cultural heterogeneity;
- but person who belongs to one cultural entity can
depend to other cultural entity as well. For example, a
person who lives in Baku can define himself as
Azerbaijani, Caucasian, Muslim (Christian),
Azerbaijani turk (Russian), Asian or Eastern.
• also can include some different nations (e. g.
Western, Arab, Turkish civilizations)
5. Levels of clash of civilizations
• Macro-level
- competition for power (economic, military and
etc.), struggle for taking control over international
processes by states;
• Micro-level
- struggle for different kind of power (economic,
military, territorial integrity or self-determination)
of groups with neighborhood from different
civilization.
6. Different fault lines between
civilizations during history (1)
• Cultural divisions of Europe after Cold War:
- Western Christianity;
- Orthodox Christianity and Islam.
• The same for Yugoslavia:
- Croatia and Slovenia;
- The rest of former Yugoslavia.
8. Different fault lines between
civilizations during history (3)
• Interesting fault line between China and
America which is called “new cold war” by
Deng Xaioping.
• The same for the USA and Japan (which
succeeds to develop by technology using non-
Western ways)
- Interesting point: EU countries also develop, but
these countries have the same basic values,
attitudes with USA, while Japan has different
values and culture.
10. Supporting participants of conflict
Groups or states belonging to one civilization
that involved in conflict with people from
different civilizations often support participants
of conflict from their civilization:
- Gulf War;
- Armenian-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno-
Karabakh and support from Turkey and Russia to
these countries;
- conflict in former Yugoslavia.
11. Conflicts and violence within the
same civilizations?
Huntington (1993): Yes!
- Russia and Ukraine over Crimea;
- Caucasus;
- Balkan.
12. References (1)
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• Rosecrance R, 1998, “Reviewed work: The clash of civilizations.
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3X5hIFXYU