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"The Clash of Civilizations"
The Clash of Civilizations (COC) is a hypothesis that people's cultural and religious identities will be the primary source of conflict in the post-Cold War world. American political scientist Samuel P. Huntington argued that future wars would be fought not between countries,but between cultures
During 1993, Huntington provoked great debate among international relations theorists with the interrogatively-titled "The Clash of Civilizations?", an influential, oft-cited article published in Foreign Affairs magazine. In the article, he argued that, after the fall of the Soviet Union, Islam would become the biggest obstacle to Western domination of the world. The West's next big war therefore, he said, would inevitably be with Islam.[13] Its description of post-Cold War geopolitics and the "inevitability of instability" contrasted with the influential End of History thesis advocated by Francis Fukuyama.

Huntington expanded "The Clash of Civilizations?" to book length and published it as The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order in 1996. The article and the book posit that post-Cold War conflict would most frequently and violently occur because of cultural rather than ideological differences. That, whilst in the Cold War, conflict occurred between the Capitalist West and the Communist Bloc East, it now was most likely to occur between the world's major civilizations—identifying seven, and a possible eighth: (i) Western, (ii) Latin American, (iii) Islamic, (iv) Sinic (Chinese), (v) Hindu, (vi) Orthodox, (vii) Japanese, and (viii) African. This cultural organization contrasts the contemporary world with the classical notion of sovereign states. To understand current and future conflict, cultural rifts must be understood, and culture—rather than the State—must be accepted as the reason for war. Thus, Western nations will lose predominance if they fail to recognize the irreconcilable nature of cultural tensions. Huntington argued that this post-Cold War shift in geopolitical organization and structure requires the West to strengthen itself culturally, by abandoning the imposition of its ideal of democratic universalism and its incessant military interventionism. Underscoring this point, Huntington wrote in the 1996 expansion, "In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous."[14]

The identification of Western Civilization with the Western Christianity (Catholic-Protestant) was not Huntington's original idea, it was rather the traditional Western opinion and subdivision before the Cold War era.

Critics (for example articles in Le Monde Diplomatique) call The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order the theoretical legitimization of American-caused Western aggression against China and the world's Islamic and Orthodox cultures. Other critics argue that Huntington's taxonomy is simplistic and arbitrary, and does not take account of the internal dynamics and partisan tensions within civilizations. Furthermore, critics argue that Huntington neglects ideological mobilization by elites and unfulfilled socioeconomic needs of the population as the real causal factors driving conflict, that he ignores conflicts that do not fit well with the civilizational borders identified by him, and they charge that his new paradigm is nothing but realist thinking in which "states" became replaced by "civilizations".[15] Huntington's influence upon U.S. policy has been likened to that of British historian Arnold Toynbee's controversial religious theories about Asian leaders during the early twentieth century.

The New York Times obituary on Samuel Huntington notes, however, that his "emphasis on ancient religious empires, as opposed to states or ethnicities, [as sources of global conflict] gained...more cachet after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Huntington wrote that Ukraine might divide along the cultural line between the more Catholic western Ukraine and Orthodox eastern Ukraine:

While a statist approach highlights the possibility of a Russian-Ukrainian war, a civilizational approach minimizes that and instead highlights the possibility of Ukraine splitting in half, a separation which cultural factors would lead one to predict might be more violent than that of Czechoslovakia but far less bloody than that of Yugoslavia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_P._Huntington 8)
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This is from my little show in my city (I was following the events of Charlottesville at the same time)
thank God
I was born and live in Poland ..
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Wed Aug 16, 2017 5:04 pm

Just finished a 3 week tour of Poland.
Beautiful country, great food, wodka, gentle people.
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Mon Aug 28, 2017 11:49 am

HLB98 wrote:Just finished a 3 week tour of Poland.
Beautiful country, great food, wodka, gentle people.
I understand that was a big culture shock. :lol: :lol:
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kobron wrote:"The Clash of Civilizations"
The Clash of Civilizations (COC) is a hypothesis that people's cultural and religious identities will be the primary source of conflict in the post-Cold War world. American political scientist Samuel P. Huntington argued that future wars would be fought not between countries,but between cultures
During 1993, Huntington provoked great debate among international relations theorists with the interrogatively-titled "The Clash of Civilizations?", an influential, oft-cited article published in Foreign Affairs magazine. In the article, he argued that, after the fall of the Soviet Union, Islam would become the biggest obstacle to Western domination of the world. The West's next big war therefore, he said, would inevitably be with Islam.[13] Its description of post-Cold War geopolitics and the "inevitability of instability" contrasted with the influential End of History thesis advocated by Francis Fukuyama.

Huntington expanded "The Clash of Civilizations?" to book length and published it as The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order in 1996. The article and the book posit that post-Cold War conflict would most frequently and violently occur because of cultural rather than ideological differences. That, whilst in the Cold War, conflict occurred between the Capitalist West and the Communist Bloc East, it now was most likely to occur between the world's major civilizations—identifying seven, and a possible eighth: (i) Western, (ii) Latin American, (iii) Islamic, (iv) Sinic (Chinese), (v) Hindu, (vi) Orthodox, (vii) Japanese, and (viii) African. This cultural organization contrasts the contemporary world with the classical notion of sovereign states. To understand current and future conflict, cultural rifts must be understood, and culture—rather than the State—must be accepted as the reason for war. Thus, Western nations will lose predominance if they fail to recognize the irreconcilable nature of cultural tensions. Huntington argued that this post-Cold War shift in geopolitical organization and structure requires the West to strengthen itself culturally, by abandoning the imposition of its ideal of democratic universalism and its incessant military interventionism. Underscoring this point, Huntington wrote in the 1996 expansion, "In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous."[14]

The identification of Western Civilization with the Western Christianity (Catholic-Protestant) was not Huntington's original idea, it was rather the traditional Western opinion and subdivision before the Cold War era.

Critics (for example articles in Le Monde Diplomatique) call The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order the theoretical legitimization of American-caused Western aggression against China and the world's Islamic and Orthodox cultures. Other critics argue that Huntington's taxonomy is simplistic and arbitrary, and does not take account of the internal dynamics and partisan tensions within civilizations. Furthermore, critics argue that Huntington neglects ideological mobilization by elites and unfulfilled socioeconomic needs of the population as the real causal factors driving conflict, that he ignores conflicts that do not fit well with the civilizational borders identified by him, and they charge that his new paradigm is nothing but realist thinking in which "states" became replaced by "civilizations".[15] Huntington's influence upon U.S. policy has been likened to that of British historian Arnold Toynbee's controversial religious theories about Asian leaders during the early twentieth century.

The New York Times obituary on Samuel Huntington notes, however, that his "emphasis on ancient religious empires, as opposed to states or ethnicities, [as sources of global conflict] gained...more cachet after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Huntington wrote that Ukraine might divide along the cultural line between the more Catholic western Ukraine and Orthodox eastern Ukraine:

While a statist approach highlights the possibility of a Russian-Ukrainian war, a civilizational approach minimizes that and instead highlights the possibility of Ukraine splitting in half, a separation which cultural factors would lead one to predict might be more violent than that of Czechoslovakia but far less bloody than that of Yugoslavia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_P._Huntington 8)
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Spray on cardboard..
This is from my little show in my city (I was following the events of Charlottesville at the same time)
thank God
I was born and live in Poland ..
:P
I observe what is happening in the United States and where are so many moron from?
- no basic education ..
Communism and fascism: 2 similar totalitarianisms
Year 1939 On 1 September the Germans (Nazis) attack Poland
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September 17, the Russians (communists) also attack Poland.
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September 22 common parade of Nazis and communists ..
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are there any questions? 8)
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Wed Aug 30, 2017 12:25 pm

The Show Must Go On :lol:
Very successful party in my city ..
No pdf :P
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the world is Mine! (Spray on cardboard 60 x30 cm)
For a friend from Scotland (for his grandson)
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Fri Sep 01, 2017 2:16 pm

we have today 1 September .. now it is 19.30 pm my time in Poland ..
On September 1, the Germans (or mythical Nazis) attacked my country.
On 3rd September England and France join the war against Germany (ally Poland)
And what is the fight with Nazism nowadays in the world:
1. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html - 0 articles
2.www.express.co.uk - 0 articles
3.http: //www.breitbart.com - 0 articles
4.https: //www.washingtonpost.com/- 0 articles

My grandfather was only 16 years old in 1945. As he walked with Polish soldiers to capture Berlin .. (escaped from Russia)

Congratulations.. :evil:
you are the best!!! :cry:
ps.
Great thanks to Julien Bryan!
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Julien Hequembourg Bryan (23 May 1899 in Titusville, Pennsylvania – 20 October 1974) was an American photographer, filmmaker, and documentarian. He is best known for documenting the daily life in Poland, Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany between 1935 and 1939.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8eAmFrPS7U
SIEGE - Warsaw 1939
(Released in February 1940, the first non-Nazi produced footage covering the start of World War II, the film became for many viewers their first glimpses into Nazi tactics, the first visual proof of the horrors of modern warfare. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of... When Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, the only American, and in fact the only neutral filmmaker in the country, was Julien Bryan. He arrived in Warsaw in early September with a cache of roughly an hour's worth of 35mm motion-picture negative. Given open access to the city by the mayor, he filmed day and night for two weeks, documenting Warsaw's destruction and Germany's inexorable advance. Back in New York he assembled the footage into a ten-minute newsreel called Siege. http://www.afana.org/iff.htm .)
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Fri Sep 01, 2017 3:56 pm

and very cordial greetings to our friends from England and France .. :shock:
The London Victory Celebrations of 1946 were the British Commonwealth, Empire and Allied victory celebrations held after the defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan in World War II. [1] [2] The celebrations took place in London on June 8, 1946, [3] and consisted mostly of a military parade through the city and a night time fireworks display. [2] The British allies took part in the parade, including Belgium, Brazil, China, Czechoslovakia, France, Greece, Luxembourg and the United States. [1] The parade agreements caused a controversy surrounding the lack of representation of Polish forces.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Vi ... ns_of_1946
thank you very much! :pint: :clap:
No. 303 ("Kościuszko") Polish Fighter Squadron (Polish: 303 Dywizjon Myśliwski "Warszawski im. Tadeusza Kościuszki") was one of 16 Polish squadrons in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. It was not just the highest scoring of the Hurricane squadrons during the Battle of Britain, but it had the highest ratio of enemy aircraft destroyed to their own lost (safest).[1][2][3]
The squadron was named after the Polish and United States hero General Tadeusz Kościuszko, and the eponymous Polish 7th Air Escadrille founded by Merian C. Cooper, that served Poland in the 1919–1921 Polish-Soviet War. No. 303 was formed in July 1940 in Blackpool, England[4] before deployment to RAF Northolt on 2 August as part of an agreement between the Polish Government in Exile and the United Kingdom. It had a distinguished combat record and was disbanded in December 1946.
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Fri Sep 01, 2017 5:37 pm

But, for those pictures sentenced to a journalist in Germany .. :shock:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWf3Qrk3aUU
History of the 13th SS Muslim Divisions
of course thanks to the allies ..
is great..
religion of peace, nazism, communism - is fun! :lol:
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Sun Sep 03, 2017 3:35 pm

I'm going back to work ..
my daughter has a ring, collecting 100 US dollars on the wedding .. :D
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end of summer!
Barcelona children are going back to school...
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Sun Sep 03, 2017 4:03 pm

I see that in the USA the fight continues with injustice in the world!
:lol: :lol: :lol:
He posted a picture of the subway and caused an international storm!
An American journalist posted a photo taken in the Warsaw(Poland-Europe) subway on Twitter. We seem to be ordinary photography, but it turned out that for the Americans this was an unusual sight.
Paradoxically, there is nothing interesting there
:D :D :D
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Mon Sep 18, 2017 1:37 pm

WASHINGTON (CBSNewYork) — A new warning has been issued for Americans traveling overseas to Europe.
The State Department announced Thursday night that a travel alert for Europe is now extended until Nov. 30.
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Mon Sep 18, 2017 1:48 pm

California could be the first state in the nation to legalize psychedelic mushrooms, if a controversial ballot initiative filed with the Secretary of State last Friday passes.
The sponsor of the initiative, a legalization activist named Kevin Saunders, is sure to inspire a whole new wave of creative headlines nationwide, taking pot shots at California. Saunders simply believes that mushroom legalization is the next logical step after recreational marijuana was approved by voters last year.
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Should heroin be legalized?
and I'm ready to paint .. :twisted:
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I'm not interested in who will pay for it:
Clinton Foundation or Soros Foundation.
it will not be cheap .. :P
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Mon Sep 18, 2017 3:20 pm

And how in the US is going to demolish the monuments ?
Declaration of Independence - proclaimed July 4, 1776 ..
the Nazis - of course .. :lol:
The left educated in France and Germany says: this is sh.t!
All are Nazis, only Germans fought with evil .. :shock:
Monument commemorating polish aid in battle of Vienna devastated. Vandals wrote "no nazi" on it despite battle took place in... 1683. :roll:
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The battle was fought by the Habsburg Monarchy, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Holy Roman Empire, under the command of King John III Sobieski against the Ottomans and their vassal and tributary states. The battle marked the first time the Commonwealth and the Holy Roman Empire had cooperated militarily against the Ottomans, and it is often seen as a turning point in history, after which "the Ottoman Turks ceased to be a menace to the Christian world".[18] In the ensuing war that lasted until 1699, the Ottomans lost almost all of Hungary to the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vienna)
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The Nazis from Poland defended Europe against peaceful Muslim troops ..
and Pope Francis confirmed it... :lol: :lol: :lol:
yes it was ..
This may be a good time to point out that when President Donald Trump visited Poland recently, it is said that his first official photo to be released from the trip was the following:
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The portrait of course, is Jan Sobieski. 8)
(Because Sobieski had entrusted his kingdom to the protection of the Blessed Virgin (Our Lady of Częstochowa) before the battle, Pope Innocent XI commemorated his victory by extending the feast of the Holy Name of Mary, which until then had been celebrated solely in Spain and the Kingdom of Naples, to the entire Church; it used to be celebrated on the Sunday within the Octave of the Nativity of Mary and was, when Pope St. Pius X intended to make room for the celebration of the actual Sundays, transferred to 12 September, the day of the victory.
The Pope also upgraded the papal coat of arms by adding the Polish crowned White Eagle. After victory in the Battle of Vienna, the Polish king was also granted by the Pope the title of "Defender of the Faith" ("Defensor Fidei").[35] In honor of Sobieski, the Austrians erected a church atop the Kahlenberg hill north of Vienna.)
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