The Peace on The Horizon - 75 Years after The World War 2 in the Middle East (141)

 

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Chapter 5: Two calendars (Gregorian & Hijri) (27)

 

141 Two books: “The End of History and the Last Man” & ”The Clash of Civilization and the Remaking of World Order” (1/5)

 

In the 1990s, the last decade of the 20th century, two books were published by a political scientist in the United States, and had the great reputation. One was "The End of History and the Last Man" by Francis Fukuyama in 1992 and the other one was "The Clash of Civilization and the Remaking of World Order" by Samuel Huntington in 1996. When one century was coming to the end, it was apt to be published abnormal literatures which predicts the end of the world like "Harmagedon" or "The predictions of Nostradamus". But two books refereed above were the papers on civilization by renowned scholars. The assertion of two papers were quite different.

 

The Middle East has been at the mercy of history as a crossover point of East and West civilizations. In that sense, both books suggested important points for the history of the Middle East.

 

(To be continued ----)

 

 

Areha Kazuya

(From an ordinary citizen in the cloud)