Following the collapse of Communism, Islam lingers as the only vital opposing ideology which could pose a serious threat to Western secularism especially its spread of degenerate social ills like gay marriage man-animal marriage and their like in the name of freedom and liberalism. Thus the clash' thesis is essentially a policy advice by one of America's policy makers to the American government.
Finally, there is no statistically significant evidence that the intensity of civilizational conflicts have risen relative to other types of ethnic conflicts since the end of the Cold War. Thirdly, conflicts between the West and both the Confucian and Islamic civilizations, which Huntington predicts will be the major conflicts in the post-Cold War era, constitute a small minority of civilizational conflicts. Secondly, civilizational conflicts constitute a minority of ethnic and international conflicts. First, Huntington's classification of civilizations is difficult to operationalize.
The analysis reveals that several problems are ingrained in Huntington's argument. It further attempts to explore the nature of Western cum Islamic relations in the light of clash of civilizations thesis. This review, aims at revisiting the clash of civilizations thesis in the light of Islamic cum West relations especially in regards to whether the Clash of Civilizations' thesis is Western in its orientation and content? How the Clash' thesis is a vindication and basis for post-Cold War U.S foreign policy goals and strategies? To ascertain the prime responses of the thesis from the perspectives of the non Western world and to assess the view of Muslim scholars on Huntington's thesis. The order of the authors’ names indicates how big each author’s role was in creating the finally published version. As most of the thorough revisions and the editing have been done by me, it was decided to consider these papers as co-authored. The chapters published here are extensively revised and enlarged versions of students’ papers. More than half of the participants were visiting students. It brought together a large group of postgraduates from different graduate schools. “The Origins of Geopolitical Thinking” was part of the Postgraduate General Course (大学院共通科目). Spang, and Kuanish Beisenov The three chapters featured in this Special Section "Discussing Geopolitics” are based on a graduate course taught in Spring 2010 at the University of Tsukuba. Civilizations in International Relations: Huntington’s Theory of Conflict 24 - 31 Nurlan Tussupov, Christian W.The Pivot Moves Eastward: Mackinder and the Okinawa Problem 18 - 23 Naoto Aizawa and Christian W.An Introduction to Early 20th Century Geopolitics 8 - 17 Christian W.Prologue: The Origins of Geopolitical Thinking 7 Christian W.Special Section: Discussing Geopolitics CONTENTS
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