POLI 341 Chapter Notes -Liberal Democracy, North American Free Trade Agreement
10 Jan 2013
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The nature of civilizations: groups countries in terms of their culture and civilization, civilization: a cultural entity (villages, regions, ethnic groups, religion groups , common italian culture that distinguishes different italian villages from german villages. European communities share cultural features that distinguish them from arab or chinese communities. Arabs, chinese and westerners, however, are not part of any broader cultural entity (they are civilizations: highest cultural grouping is civilization, broader reaches of human history have been the history of civilizations. Why civilizations will clash: seven or eight major civilizations, western, confucian, japanese, islamic, hindu, slavic-orthodox, latin. West is a peak of power return to the roots phenomenon occurring among non-western civilizations. Asianization in japan, failure of western socialism + nationalism. West at the peak of its power confronts non-wests that increasingly have the desire, will, and resources to shape the world in non- Nafta works with mexico, canada and the us.
