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Saturday, March 04, 2006

Thoughts For Today

"Civilizations die from suicide, not murder" Arnold Toynbee.

Arnold Joseph Toynbee was a British historian whose twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations, A Study Of History, 1934-1961, was a global history based on rhythms of rise, flowering and decline.
Wikipedia - Arnold J. Toynbee

"The fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural." Samuel P. Huntington

The Clash of Civilizations is a theory in international relations popularized by Samuel P. Huntington. The basis of Huntington's thesis is that people's cultural/religious identity will be the primary agent of conflict in the post Cold War world.
Wikipidia - The Clash Of civilizations

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