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Turkey, The Caspian Region, & The Clash Of Civilizations, Nathan L. Burns
Turkey, The Caspian Region, & The Clash Of Civilizations, Nathan L. Burns
The Pegasus Review: UCF Undergraduate Research Journal
This paper argues that Turkey's contemporary role in the Caspian Sea region directly challenges Samuel P. Huntington's civilizational paradigm. While his work Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) is now a rather dated contribution to International Relations Theory, Huntington's ideas have continued to reverberate in the post-9/11 world. As the conflict between the US and the Islamic world drags on in Iraq and the Middle East, the allure of Huntingtonesque arguments may be all the stronger. 1
The civilization that most conforms to Huntington's paradigm is the Islamic civilization. Within the geographical area of this civilization, …