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Critiques of The Clash of Civilizations by Samuel P. Huntington

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that relate to cultural discord, such as nationalism and the Islamic Jihad. Bibliography lists 16 sources. TLCclash.rtf SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTONS "THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS": CRITIQUES  by (c) October 2001 paper properly! I. INTRODUCTION/CRITIQUES "For peoples seeking identity and reinventing ethnicity,  enemies are essential, and the potentially most dangerous enmities occur across the fault lines between the worlds major civilizations" (Huntington, 1998, p. PG). While popular in virtually every political  circle, Samuel P. Huntingtons The Clash of Civilizations is not supported by everyone who reads the authors sometimes-scathing and judgmental assertions of global cultural discord. Lebanese-born Shiite and Johns  Hopkins professor Fouad Ajami takes exception to Huntingtons (1998) broad brush approach to the overwhelming ethnic condemnation he puts forth in his book. According to Ajami, who openly spoke  of his feelings in a 1993 issue of Foreign Affairs, "the world of Islam divides and subdivides. The battle lines in the Caucasus ... are not coextensive with civilizational  fault lines. The lines follow the interest of states. Where Huntington sees a civilizational duel between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the Iranian state has cast religious zeal ... to  the wind ... in that battle the Iranians have tilted toward Christian Armenia" (Kaplan, 1997, pp. 269-270). Dokhi Fassihian. a graduate of John  Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, critiques Huntington (1998) by recognizing the extent to which his thesis is rejected by scholars and intellectuals but readily embraced by politicians. With  the importance of international relations of utmost concern in contemporary society, Fassihian (1998) cites globalization as an integral component of where Huntington (1998) fails to win his argument. "Put