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The three new members of the Alliance belong to the Western sphere of civilization.
The bloodshed in Kosovo is a war within that united civilization, it is not a clash between opposing civilizations.
On the right, civilized religionists support the opera to demonstrate a broad-minded concern with subsidizing the great achievements of European civilization, not merely sectarian ones.
Like a happy and secure childhood, Confucian civilization bestowed upon its practitioners the self-confidence to meet the challenge of the West.
What is occurring in the region is a clash within a civilization; to enable IS to portray it as a conflict between civilizations – and itself as the true defender of Islam – would be a grave strategic mistake.
And the scourge of poverty and famine – most vividly urgent today in Somalia – continues to offend the very idea of civilization.
Fortunately, in the end, the opponents were forced to fight a will stronger than their own: the will of those who – after the abolition of slavery and torture – want to mark another turning point for civilization.
Instead, Indian nationalism is founded on an idea: the idea of an ever-ever land, emerging from an ancient civilization, united by a shared history, sustained by pluralist democracy.
The resulting division of the peninsula along the 38th parallel has outlasted many other such twentieth-century tragedies, dividing families and fracturing an ancient, vibrant civilization.
Russia might not be a superpower anymore; but, according to Putin, it represents a morally superior civilization battling America’s foreign-policy recklessness, malevolent economic practices, and moral depravity.
ISIS (and Al Qaeda before it) has recognized the Achilles’ heel of Western civilization – the fear of death – and learned how to exploit it.
The rhetoric of xenophobic demagogues appears to have convinced him that he had to kill the children of the social-democratic elites in order to protect Western civilization against the dangers of multiculturalism and Islam.
Likewise, Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, may emphasize the specificity of “Russian civilization” in a manner evocative of nineteenth-century anti-Western thinkers; but many in the Russian elite still consider the European Union, despite its many weaknesses, the most civilized model of governance that exists.
The Emotional Clash of CivilizationsThroughout the so-called “war on terror,” the notion of a “clash of civilization” between Islam and the West has usually been dismissed as politically incorrect and intellectually wrongheaded.
Instead, the most common interpretation has been that the world has entered a new era characterized by conflict “within” a particular civilization, namely Islam, with fundamentalist Muslims as much at war against moderates as against the West.
It would be a gross oversimplification to speak, as some are doing, of a clash between civilization and barbarism.
It is fitting that Rome and Athens, the two seats of classical Western civilization, have turned to these two urbane, erudite men for leadership.
The story of Israel extends far beyond the current conflict, to recount an extraordinary symbiosis between Jewish heritage and European civilization that ended in calamity.
Indeed, the Marquis de Custine’s Letters from Russia suggested that Russian civilization amounted to little more than the mimicry of monkeys.
Indeed, in the 1830’s, two Frenchmen, Alexis de Tocqueville and Custine, went to the outskirts of civilization to describe the future superpower rivals, America and Russia.
Yet the maturity of Iran’s civilization suggests an enormous capacity to play a positive role in an increasingly complex world order.
Iran’s could be a civilization of the future, not of the past.
Unfortunately, there may be situations in which a UN mandate may not come, although intervention is in the interest of many people; of all Europe; indeed, of human civilization.
And I know that there is, in the enthusiasm of today’s winner, in his joy, in his youthful optimism (an optimism at once measured, fervent, and didactic), something that responds to the malaise of French civilization.
A more ominous question is familiar from novels and movies: Will we have to defend our civilization against intelligent machines of our own creation?
If that happens, the crucial question for the future of civilization is: Will the super-intelligent computers be friendly?
Demystifying the Chinese EconomyWASHINGTON, DC – China had an advanced and prosperous civilization for millennia until the eighteenth century, but then degenerated into a very poor country for 150 years.
Even though “Harry” Lee, as he was known when he was a student at Cambridge, imbibed much from Western civilization, including a peculiar admiration for the hierarchy of the Catholic Church, he was always careful to stress the Asian provenance of his political ideas.
To protect our planet – and, in turn, our civilization – voices like that of the Club of Rome are more important than ever.
After all, by far the most important factor determining whether our children and grandchildren will enjoy secure, healthy, and productive lives is whether the world’s natural ecosystems survive the pressures put on them by modern civilization.
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