Samuel Huntington has passed away. Without the wikipedia is a product of the American elite, Yale, Harvard and the whole shebang. He also served in the Carter administration as White House coordinator of Security Planning for the National Security Council "- when was Brzenziksi NSA. Whole program.
Returning on one of these books, the famous "clash of civilizations" released in 1994. This "firebrand" thrown like a stone into the pool of optimism after the melting of the Soviet threat was meant to be a response to current mondialo-internationalists such as the theory of liberal peace echoed by Fukuyama (who gives the passage layer: http://the-american-interest.com/contd/?p=688 ).
From the preface, Huntington has the honesty to inform us that his book is not a work of social science. Mean by then it will only fill one third of each page with quotes instead of the half. What is still sixth extra to give free rein to his imagination, if not his fantasies. Sure to keep up suspense, but he is careful to reveal the character "cheap sci-fi" that the reader will learn quite quickly.
This small side "War of the Worlds," refreshing, will also maintain the interest aroused between two yawning caused by long and tedious enumerations. This coastal country name painful observed under different prisms (religion, ethnicity, language, culture, shoe size etc ...) at least has the merit of playing the 7 mistakes most steadfast among us.
The author keeps the brush tangled in contradictions (there are fewer Christians in the world, ah yes but there are 50 million Christians in China) or stupid (he there would be fewer English speakers on earth) by pasting quotes contradictory, placed end to end, manage to do more or less fall on his feet.
In the first 150 pages, it should be noted that Portugal is not in Europe, the China was the 2 nd economic power (in 94) and other approximations on Central Asia (also Brzenziksi repeated two years later in "The Grand Chessboard," which recalls the good word by Bruce Cumings "the circle of international relations in the U.S. are ten people who cite each other). They have no blacks at Harvard and Co. to reread the work of teachers who sweeten strawberries?
Huntington does not hesitate to ride the wave of all subjects in vogue in the 90's (Asian values, China's awakening, declining the West, Islamic threat, regionalism in Asia etc ...), without providing nothing (which demonstrates the evils of reward "scholars" to the weight of their writings). The whole evokes the frame of a bad SAS
But what is frankly laughable, it's stinking side generals, cliches, this Manichaean vision that strikes us as possible to calmly, even for a U.S.. (The very constipating) Edward Said was blowing about it (very good "Popeye"!) In this article http://www.nawaat.org/portail/2005/02/02/le-choc-de -lignorance / .
This reminds Peyrefitte who at 73 already, we announced the Apocalypse on 500 pages warning us of the fact that every day there are more and more Chinese, or more seriously, in Desproges his pamphlet dangerously xenophobic "foreigners are zero" panicked - without moving the ears - to see that every day there were more and more foreigners in the World ...
I right even hard to believe that this guy, certainly also can have very bright ideas as limited and simplistic realities of this world. Why such a pile of nonsense? Whose crime will profit on? Would that work order requested by reactionary groups whose prospects for peaceful too liberal theories would run contrary to their interests?
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