Vicious Circle of Cultural Conflicts and Interests

Samuel P. Huntington's paper "The clash of civilizations" defines the shifting of causes for friction between nations. He describes the changing of the guard, between secular ideological friction, such as democracy versus communism, to cultural and religious reasoning. Huntington's hypothesis is based heavily on examples of recent struggles between civilizations all over the world. In his thesis, Samuel P. Huntington claims that cultural differences between civilizations will be the reason for international conflicts in the future. In the near future there will be eight major civilizations…