A civilizations-based world order best prevents world war

Evidence

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. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 901 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

At its heart, Said’s critique challenges the motivations of those, including Lewis and Huntington, who rely on a clash of civilizations paradigm to make sense of the world in general and the relationship between Islam and the West in particular. Such a paradigm feeds on conflict and division, thereby “increasing the rifts between people in order to prolong our dominance.” What we need is not conflict but community, not a clash but a coming together of people across cultural barriers to face the dangers that threaten the entire human race. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 233 (#complicates, via linked claim)

The concept of a universal civilization is a distinctive product of Western civilization. In the nineteenth century the idea of “the white man’s burden” helped justify the extension of Western political and economic domination over non-Western societies. At the end of the twentieth century the concept of a universal civilization helps justify Western cultural dominance of other societies and the need for those societies to ape Western practices and institutions. Universalism is the ideology of the West for confrontations with non-Western cultures. As is often the case with marginals or converts, among the most enthusiastic proponents of the single civilization idea are intellectual migrants to the West, such as Naipaul and Fouad Ajami, for whom the concept provides a highly satisfying answer to the central question: Who am I? “White man’s nigger,” however, is the term one Arab intellectual applied to these migrants, and the idea of a universal civilization finds little support in other civilizations. The non-Wests see as Western what the West sees as universal. What Westerners herald as benign global integration, such as the proliferation of worldwide media, non-Westerners denounce as nefarious Western imperialism. To the extent that non-Westerners see the world as one, they see it as a threat. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 176 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Civilization-based international order is the best safeguard against world war — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 901; Post-Cold War order must be organized by civilizations or not at all — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 422; The ideal of a universal civilization serves Western dominance interests — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 176 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Civilization-based international order is the best safeguard against world war #corroborates (1.00) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 901
• The clash-of-civilizations paradigm serves to prolong dominance #complicates (0.85) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 233
• The ideal of a universal civilization serves Western dominance interests #complicates (0.78) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 176