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Undoubtedly many more people in the world are concerned with sports than with human rights.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)
In the post-Cold War world, for the first time in history, global politics has become multipolar and multicivilizational.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)
The most important groupings of states are no longer the three blocs of the Cold War but rather the world’s seven or eight major civilizations.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)
Those who do not recognize fundamental divides, however, are doomed to be frustrated by them.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)
Cultural and civilizational diversity challenges the Western and particularly American belief in the universal relevance of Western culture.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)
The futures of both peace and Civilization depend upon understanding and cooperation among the political, spiritual, and intellectual leaders of the world’s major civilizations.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)
The dangerous clashes of the future are likely to arise from the interaction of Western arrogance, Islamic intolerance, and Sinic assertiveness.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)
Avoidance of a global war of civilizations depends on world leaders accepting and cooperating to maintain the multicivilizational character of global politics.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)
In the emerging era, clashes of civilizations are the greatest threat to world peace, and an international order based on civilizations is the surest safeguard against world war.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)
When civilizations first emerge, their people are usually vigorous, dynamic, brutal, mobile, and expansionist. They are relatively uncivilized.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)
In the early 1990s Muslims were engaged in more intergroup violence than were non-Muslims, and two-thirds to three-quarters of intercivilizational wars were between Muslims and non-Muslims. Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)
In Western Europe, anti-Semitism directed against Arabs has largely replaced Anti-Semitism against Jews...
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)
The survival of the West depends on Americans reaffirming their Western identity and Westerners accepting their civilization as unique not universal and uniting to renew and preserve it against challenges from non-Western societies.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)
A multicultural world is unavoidable because global empire is impossible. The preservation of the United States and the West requires the renewal of Western identity. The security of the world requires acceptance of global multiculturality.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)
Asians, in short, are determined to exclude Australia from their club for the same reason Europeans do Turkey: they are different from us. Prime Minister Keating liked to say that he was going to change Australia from "the odd man out to the odd man in" in Asia. That, however is an oxymoron: odd men don't get in.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)
Hypocrisy, double standards, and "but nots" are the price of universalist pretensions. Democracy is promoted, but not if it brings Islamic fundamentalists to power; nonproliferation is preached for Iran and Iraq, but not for Israel; free trade is the elixir of economic growth, but not for agriculture; human rights are an issue for China, but not with Saudi Arabia; aggression against oil-owning Kuwaitis is massively repulsed, but not against non-oil-owning Bosnians. Double standards in practice are the unavoidable price of universal standards of principle.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)