Political Science

Political Science

Introduction

International Relation deals with the study of relations prevailing among the various counties, the politics going on and the various theories and practices of maintaining world peace. It includes detailed accounts of the various techniques used by various politicians and other personnel at various points in history, and also deal with the essential and influential theories presented by various authors in different times. The following theories and practices have gained acceptance universally and have gotten approved by various scholars and intellectuals, and thus are known to have enormous implications and far reaching effects. The following paragraphs provide the detailed account of the four major concepts of internal relations, in order to prove the validity of the construct.

Discussion

The clash of civilizations

The theory of Clash of Civilization was presented by the renowned political scientist Samuel P. Huntington, which presented the idea the differences in cultural and religious identities of people would ultimately become the cause of cause of conflict in the post- cold war era. The theory emerged in 1992, during a lecture in the American Enterprise Institute. Further development in the theory took place in 1993, when an article in Foreign Affairs published an article entitles The Clash of Civilizations. The article came to screen as a response to the Francis Fukuyama's book The End of History and the Last Man. The thesis of the article eventually got explained by Huntington in his book The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, which got published in 1996.

The expression Clash of Civilizations came from the expression Clash of Cultures, which was already present and got altered, by Huntington, to explain the phenomenon. The book deals with the varying and diverse theories regarding the intense nature of internal politics in the post cold war era. A number of intellectuals and philosophers have argued that the post cold war countries were only left with a few issues to debate and discuss, including human rights, liberal democracy and the capitalist free market economy. As a result of this limited ideological alternative, Fukuyama declared that the world has reached the End if History and the issues that once prevailed now cease to exist.

On the other hand, Huntington was of the opinion that the age of ideology has ended cultural conflicts and differences have taken over all the other issues of the world. Keeping in view the postulate, Huntington concluded that these differences would ...