PO101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Islamic Ethics, Theocracy, Ijtihad
Document Summary
Part iv: armed conflict in the 21 st century. Realism and the quest for power: need for conquest. Idealism and the clash of cultural values: e. g. huntington"s thesis. Nationalism and elite manipulation: using patriotism for the interests of the elites. Money and materialism: war is good for business: military industrial complex . Culture plays a renewed role in international relations and politics: civilizational consciousness is on the increase, displacing nationalism and economic ideology (i. e. capitalism vs. socialism) of the cold war as the basis for conflict. Huntington"s list of civilizational blocs: western, confucian, japanese, islamic, hindu slavic-orthodox, latin american, and possibly african. Huntington"s view: there are different global civilizations. Represent the rise of extremist ideology against a more open and inclusivst religious value system. A threat to other muslims and non-muslims. 9/11 reflects a deadly combination of religious ideas with modern scientific calculations of death and destruction.
