The Clash of Civilizations?

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• The Clash of Civilizations?
• The fundamental source of conflict in this new
  world will not be primarily ideological or
  primarily economic. The great divisions among
  humankind and the dominating source of conflict
  will be cultural. Nation states will remain the
  most powerful actors in world affairs, but the
  principal conflicts of global politics will occur
  between nations and groups of different
  civilizations. The clash of civilizations will
  dominate global politics. The fault lines
  between civilizations will be the battle lines of
  the future.
• Samuel Huntington

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Underlying Causes of Internal Conflict .Mich
ael E. Brown

• I. Structural Factors
• Weak states
• Intrastate security concerns
• Ethnic geography

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Underlying Causes of Internal Conflict .Mich
ael E. Brown

• II. Political Factors
• Discriminatory political institutions
• Exclusionary national ideologies
• Intergroup politics
• Elite politics

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Underlying Causes of Internal Conflict .Mich
ael E. Brown

• III. Economic/Social Factors
• Economic problems
• Discriminatory economic systems
• Economic development and modernization

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Underlying Causes of Internal Conflict .Mich
ael E. Brown

• IV. Cultural/Perceptual Factors
• Patterns of cultural discrimination
• Problematic group histories

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How Internal Conflicts Are Triggered

• Internal mass-level factors bad domestic
  problems
• External mass-level factors bad neighborhoods
• External elite-level factors bad neighbors
• Internal elite-level factors bad leaders

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Edward N. Luttwak

• Although war is a great evil, it does have a
  great virtue it can resolve political conflicts
  and lead to peace.
• Policy elites should actively resist the
  emotional impulse to intervene in other peoples
  wars not because they are indifferent to human
  suffering but precisely because they care about
  and want to facilitate the advent of peace.

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Kofi Annan

• State sovereignty in its most basic sense is
  being redefined by the forces of globalization
  and international cooperation.
• massive and systematic violations of human
  rights should not be allowed to stand.