Title: A Paradigm with a Purpose
Product review: Although Huntington presents a sweeping alternative to the recently antiquated bipolar paradigm of international relations and politics, his new unit of analysis does not address many of the issues at hand. He overlooks possible explanations of the current world political situation because of the new lenses of civilization-based analysis. He also minimizes the forces of economic development in the formation of post-Cold War blocs. The conclusions and policies that follow the paradigm presented in The Clash, are domestically xenophobic and internationally isolationist. The portrait of global politics presented by Huntington is neither true for the present nor desirable for the future.
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