Occupation: Political Scientist Birth: April 18, 1927 Death: December 24, 2008
Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of ….
The relations between countries in the coming decade are most likely to reflect their cultural commitments, their cultural ties and antagonism with o….
In the coming decades, questions of identity, meaning cultural heritage, language, and religion will play a central role in politics..
But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem i….
I don't think that the Israeli lobby is unique. It may differ from the others in the extent by which it is focused on just one issue, which is the su….
Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history..
I wouldn't rule out the possibility of Muslim or at least Arab countries developing some form of organization comparable to the European Union. I don….
In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it i….
It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring..
Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate..
Critics say that America is a lie because its reality falls so far short of its ideals. They are wrong. America is not a lie; it is a disappointment.….
Many more people in the world are concerned about sports than human rights..
The question really is what will be the central focus of global politics in the coming decades and my argument is that cultural identities and cultur….
Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civil….
Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods..
The colonial experience all Muslim countrieswent through may be a factor in the fight against Western domination, British, French or whatever. They w….
Cultural America is under siege. And as the Soviet experience illustrates, ideology is a weak glue to hold together people otherwise lacking racial, ….
Global politics remains extremely complex and countries have different interests, which will also lead them to make what might seem as rather bizarre….
Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, im….
These transnationalists have little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national ….
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. We….