Myth or reality? inter-civilizational rivalry and its relation to fundamentalist and national-liberation movements
Myth or reality? inter-civilizational rivalry and its relation to fundamentalist and national-liberation movements

Summary/Abstract: The inter-civilization rivalry has been discussed in geopolitical academic andpopular forums for many decades. This article aims to systematize the discussion to dateusing selected examples. Two types of conflicts were chosen: religious and nationalliberation conflicts to clarify the disputes arising from the scholarly debate to date. As aresult, the main assumptions of the theory of civilizational rivalry have been confirmed, butthe possibility of the occurrence of phenomena in their essence opposite has also beenpointed out. Therefore, one can further expect a fierce debate as to who is right.

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