Managing today’s world requires cross-civilizational coalitions built on reciprocal restraint

Evidence

In truth, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order represented in its policy implications a grand warning. Almost a decade before 9/11, Huntington’s message was that in today’s politically awakened world, our consciousness of several civilizations’ mandates requires—as nuclear weapons with their unprecedented scale of danger already require—that we rely on cross-civilizational coalitions based on reciprocal rationality, respect, and restraint in order to manage the relations between nations. Thus, Huntington’s work is not only intellectually pioneering; it dares to be politically wise. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 15 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Kissinger’s discourse must for that reason alone establish a polarity between the United States and the world; in addition, of course, he speaks consciously as an authoritative voice for the major Western power, whose recent history and present reality have placed it before a world that does not easily accept its power and dominance. Kissinger feels that the United States can deal less problematically with the industrial, developed West than it can with the developing world. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 140 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Opposition to capital must mirror capital’s sufficient globalization and patchwork coordination. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2219; Coalitions across difference inevitably conflict and need active management to endure — Michelle I. Gawerc, Coalition-building and the forging of…, 247; A civilizations-based world order best prevents world war (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Cross-civilizational coalitions based on mutual rationality and restraint are essential to manage interstate relations. #corroborates (0.96) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 15
• Great-power policy discourse structurally requires an us-versus-them world split #complicates (0.74) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 140