[Assam] Harvard: clash of civilizations; Samuel Huntington dead

[umesh sharma]

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2009/02.05/99-huntington.html

I think his was the second book (from a Harvard professor) to find its way among my father's collection. The first one being The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith who died in 2005. Atleast they were both alive and at Harvard when I first went there and studied.

Huntington was at the center of another debate - quite within Harvard -- posters and flyers on Univ walls and noticeboards -- when his new book came out pointing fingers to illegal immigrants from Mexico as a potential route/threat - for terrorists to enter the US via Mexico. Some students and faculty even invited him to a forum to debate the issue.

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" Huntington, who graduated from Yale College at age 18 and who was teaching at Harvard by age 23, was best known for his views on the clash of civilizations. He argued that in a post-Cold War world, violent conflict would come not from ideological friction between nation states, but from cultural and religious differences among the world's major civilizations.

Huntington, who was the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard, identified these major civilizations as Western (including the United States and Europe), Latin American, Islamic, African, Orthodox (with Russia as a core state), Hindu, Japanese, and "Sinic" (including China, Korea, and Vietnam).

"My argument remains," he said in a 2007 interview with Islamica Magazine, "that cultural identities, antagonisms and affiliations will not only play a role, but play a major role in relations between states." "


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I hope he presented some solutions too - clashes don't seem to include communism though -- mostly racial and religious lines.

Maybe he was right ?

Umesh Sharma

Washington D.C. 

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Ed.M. - International Education Policy
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