...and economics will no longer predominate as the fundamental sources of conflict in the world. Rather, "the great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural" (p. 22). Hunrington's thesis is based on the supposition that the world is comprised of distinct civilizations...

...ourlooks and problems. After September 11, 2001, Samuel Huntingrons prophecy that henceforth "the gteat divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural" (quoted, Kuper 1999, 3) took on a particularly terrifying quality as the teduction of political, economic,...

...War as reinscribe it in specifically cultural terms. As Huntington puts it, 'It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world...the dominating source of conflict will be cultural' (22). While this realization of the role culture plays in political events is rather belated, especially...

...in an analysis of states' positions within these interacting civilizations). In Huntington's words, "[t]he great divisions among humankind and the dominating...remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilisations":...

...of Civilizations?', Professor Samuel Huntington of Harvard University argued that future conflicts 'will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic....the dominating source of conflict will be cultural,' and he added that cultural characteristics change less easily than political and economic ones. Thus...

...politics is likely to be in the coming years." Unhesitatingly he pressed on: It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world...ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among Reprinted with permission from the October 22, 2001, issue of The Nation. humankind and the dominating...

...Huntington argued starkly that in the period ahead, the fundamental sources of conflict in the world would not be "primarily ideological or primarily economic....the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. . . [T]he principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different...

...that one culture does not dominate the rest of the world. However, Samuel Huntington predicted "that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world...not be primarily ideological or primarily economic." Rather, he declared, those "great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will...

...situation at the close of the twentieth century. Huntington's central thesis was that in the future The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural' and The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future' (Huntington, 1993,...

...sites of conflict. This line of thinking leads to Huntington's claim that "in the coming years . . . the great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural,"20 which clearly reflects his essentialist view of culture. Concerned by the appropriation...