Subject: Samuel Huntington: Unavoidable, The West-Rest Match

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Title: Unavoidable, The West-Rest Match
Titre: Inévitable, le match Occident-reste du monde   
By: Samuel Huntington
Language: French
Service: Translatus, MSANEWS

NOTE:

         Prof. Elmandjra's ScholarsBase has been updated
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         Visit: http://msanews.mynet.net/Scholars/Elmandjra/

TEXT:

               Unavoidable, The West-Rest Match
                    By Samuel Huntington
                          Addedum


                 Two Years Before Huntington 
        Mahdi Elmandjra announced the "First Civilizational War"


        In August 1991, Mahdi Elmandjra, a professor of economy
        at the University of Rabat (Morocco) wrote in his Arabic
        book, The First Civilizational War: "The Gulf War is
        nothing but the first episode of a North-South Conflict
        [which will be] dominated from now on by considerations of
        essentially cultural characters." For him, the colonial
        period was characterized by matters of an economic nature,
        the neocolonial period was dominated by issues of a
        political nature, and post-colonialism will be dominated
        by struggles cultural in nature, therefore the risk of
        "civilizational wars."

        In his book, Mahdi Elmandjra, recounted "the three major
        fears of the West": "the fear of demography", "the fear of
        Islam", and "the fear of Asia", "threats"  which are at
        the heart of Samuel Huntington's alarming [fr. detonnant]
        article, The Clash of Civilizations, published in the
        summer of 1993 by the review Foreign Affairs. The Moroccan
        economist prefers, instead of "clash", cultural diversity.  
        Using [as example] Japan's historical experience "it becomes
        evident that modernization does not mean westernization". 
        Mahdi Elmandjra cites Atsushi Shimokoube, president of the
        Nippon Institute for the Advancement of Research (NIRA), for
        whom "the New World Order could be the age of coexistence of
        multiple civilizations." 


        Sources: "La Crise du Golfe, prélude à l'affrontement
        Nord-Sud," by Mahdi Elmandjra in "Futuribles," Paris, Oct
        1990, and "Premiere Guerre Civilisationelle," the text of which
        is available at the homepage of the author.

        Article appeared in 
        Le Temps stratégique, No 82, Genève, juillet-août 1998.
        le.temps@edipresse.ch

                                 FIN

             The French text of Huntington's article 
          is available through Prof. Elmandjra's homepage.











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