Huntington states the "most important conflicts of the future will occur along the cultural fault lines separating" (Huntington, 1993) what he identified as eight specific civilizations: "Western, Confucian, Japanese, Islamic, Hindu, Slavic-Orthodox, Latin American and African" (Huntington, 1993). ... Fourth, as the West, and America in particular, becomes more and more powerful, popular and elite, smaller nation-states without access to or a desire for Westernization react and try to nurture their local cultures and traditional identities, thus leading to non-Western habi...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Throughout history, religion has had a crucial part to play in world politics. A predominantly Muslim country like Pakistan owes a lot of its political identity to the religion of Islam. In this essay "The Role of Islam in Pakistani Politics", I will begin with distinguishing between the two school...

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Previous to September 11, Egypt came under criticism from the U.S. for its policy of forcing civilians to stand trial in front of courts that were set up to combat uprising and armed attacks aimed at overthrowing the government. ... "Operating since 1985, the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights, the oldest group in the country, was denied a license to operate officially, and in 1998 "after state-security forces arrested the organizations secretary general, Hafez Abu Saeda "it was forced to turn down Western funding and to scale back its activities."" ... Increasingly it wi...

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The Threat of Radical Islam in the Middle East Radical Islam in the Middle East poses a threat on peace not only in the region but to the Western world since jihadists view the West as enemies of their fundamentalist ideologies. ...

• Word Count: 3221
• Approx Pages: 13
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate