The Clash of Civilizations?
Channel: ItHadToBeSaid
Date: 2019-07-27

This video is part 2 in a series on what civilization is and what it means for us today. In this video, I consider Samuel Huntington’s hypothesis about how the conflicts of the future wil be between people of different cultures or civilizations. I talk about how his essay and similar works by public intellectuals had real impacts on public perceptions and why the foreign-policy establishment was keen to seize on and spread the idea. And I spend some time on the nature of culture, conflict and empire.

Edward Said: Orientalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism_(book)

Edward Said on The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPS-pONiEG8