The War on Terror

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This paper examines and analyzes Samuel P. Huntington's thesis in "The Clash of Civilizations," that civilizations will clash. The paper reviews why those civilizations will fight, with particular emphasis on the conflicts between the West (the United States principal among the Western nations) and Muslims (Islam). The paper relates that pivotal differences that lead to clashes are based on history, language, culture, tradition, and "most important," religion. Huntington gives six solid, fundamental reasons as to why future clashes will more likely be between cultures and not between nation-states per se. The paper looks at America's war on terror today and contends that the strategies need to be revised, because the Islamic militants show no signs of letting up.

Outline:
Introduction
Review of Huntington's Presentation
Historic Reasons for Islamic Militancy Toward the US
Clash of Civilizations/Cultures Within the US
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"In his 1993 paper, "The Clash of Civilizations," Samuel P. Huntington writes that the "fundamental" future conflicts between forces in the world will not be over "ideological" or "economic" issues, as they were in the past. The conflicts will be "cultural," he writes, and the clashes he envisioned from his vantage point thirteen years ago in 1993 would "dominate global politics." In the past, major conflicts were in the main between kinds, emperors, absolute monarchs and constitutional monarchs; the goals in these wars were to conquer territory and establish colonies."

Sample of Sources Used:

• AbuKhailil, As'ad, 2002, Bin Laden, Islam, and America's New 'War on Terrorism', New York: Seven Stories Press.
• Bovard, James, 2003, Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil, New York: Palgrave/Macmillan.
• Global Security, 2004, 'Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) Conflicts, Available athttp://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/p0ara/hum.htm.
• Gordon, Philip H. 2006. 'The End of the Bush Revolution', Foreign Affairs, vol. 85, no. 4, pp.75-86.
• Huntington, Samuel P. 1993, 'The Clash of Civilizations', Foreign Affairs, vol. 72, no. 3, pp. 22-28.

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