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One of the stranger things about Samuel Huntington’s book
The Clash of Civilizations and
the Remaking of World Order was the debt it owed to anthropology.
Throughout much of the past hundred years, anthropologists had
been talking about clashes or conflicts among cultures, and at
first glance Huntington’s formulations seemed like an attempt to
raise this mundane phenomenon to the more grandiose level of
international affairs.
Numerous critics have identified the political issues at stake. They point out how foolish it is to imagine that men are mere prisoners of their cultures; how blind it is not to see that states with widely varying peoples and traditions, but also with the benefit of democracy, free markets, and the rule of law, peacefully cooperate all over the globe; and how perverse it is to pretend that well established procedures for conflict management have not given the modern world an unprece ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 21 July 2003, on page 0 Copyright © 2009 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/oxymoron-sandall-1705
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