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{{구별|서양}}
[[파일:Western World Latin America torn countries.png|섬네일|right|upright=1.7|[[새뮤얼 P. 헌팅턴]](Samuel P. Huntington)의 1996년 [[문명의 충돌]](Clash of Civilizations)에서 파생된 서구 세계: 연한 파란색은 서구의 일부이거나 서구와 밀접하게 관련된 별개의 문명인 [[라틴아메리카]]와 정교회 세계이다.<ref name="clashofcivilizat00hunt_p38">{{서적 인용|author=Huntington, Samuel P.|url=https://archive.org/details/clashofcivilizat00hunt/page/38|title=Clash of Civilizations|year=1991|isbn=978-0-684-84441-1|edition=6th|location=Washington, DC|pages=[https://archive.org/details/clashofcivilizat00hunt/page/38 38–39]|quote=The origin of western civilization is usually dated to 700 or 800 AD. In general, researchers consider that it has three main components, in Europe, North America and Latin America. [...] However, Latin America has followed a quite different development path from Europe and North America. Although it is a scion of European civilization, it also incorporates more elements of indigenous American civilizations compared to those of North America and Europe. It also currently has had a more corporatist and authoritarian culture. Both Europe and North America felt the effects of Reformation and combination of Catholic and Protestant cultures. Historically, Latin America has been only Catholic, although this may be changing. [...] Latin America could be considered, or a sub-set, within Western civilization, or can also be considered a separate civilization, intimately related to the West, but divided as to whether it belongs with it.}}</ref><ref name="Simon Schuster Clash of Civilizations">{{서적 인용|last1=Huntington|first1=Samuel P.|title=The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order|date=2 August 2011|publisher=Simon & Schuster|isbn=978-1451628975|pages=151–154}}</ref>]]
'''서방 세계'''(西方世界, {{Lang-en|western world}}) 또는 '''서구 세계'''(西歐世界)는 주로 [[오스트랄라시아]], [[서유럽]], 및 [[북미 (지역)|북미]] 지역의 다양한 국가와 주를 의미한다. [[동유럽]]과 [[라틴아메리카]]도 서구를 구성하는지에 대한 논쟁이 있다. 마찬가지로 서양 세계는 [[오리엔트]](라틴어 oriens '기원, 일출, 동쪽'에서 유래)로 알려진 [[동방 세계]]와 대조적으로 [[서양]](라틴어 occidens '석양, 일몰, 서쪽'에서 유래)이라고 불린다. 서양은 진화하는 개념으로 간주된다. 즉, 고정된 국경과 구성원이 있는 경직된 지역이 아니라 다양한 집단 간의 문화적, 정치적, 경제적 시너지로 구성된다. "서방 세계"의 정의는 상황과 관점에 따라 다르다.<ref name="auto">{{웹 인용| url =https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/list-of-western-countries.html | title = The Western World| last = Shvili | first = Jason | date = 26 April 2021| website = worldatlas.com| url-status=live| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221001221300/https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/list-of-western-countries.html| archive-date = 1 October 2022}}</ref>

현대의 서방 세계는 본질적으로 문명이나 문화가 [[서양 문화|서구]]로 간주되는 국가를 포함한다.<ref name="Hanson">{{서적 인용| last=Hanson | first=Victor Davis | author-link=Victor Davis Hanson |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XGr16-CxpH8C|title=Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power |quote=the term "Western" — refer to the culture of classical antiquity that arose in Greece and Rome; survived the collapse of the Roman Empire; spread to western and northern Europe; then during the great periods of exploration and colonization of the fifteenth through nineteenth centuries expanded to the Americas, Australia and areas of Asia and Africa; and now exercises global political, economic, cultural, and military power far greater than the size of its territory or population might otherwise suggest.|date=18 December 2007|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-307-42518-8|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Spielvogel">{{서적 인용| last= Spielvogel | first=Jackson J. | author-link=Jackson J. Spielvogel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ni4PSpOxb6MC|title=Western Civilization |quote=people in these early civilizations viewed themselves as subjects of states or empires, not as members of Western civilization. With the rise of Christianity during the Late Roman Empire, however, peoples in Europe began to identify themselves as part of a civilization different from others, such as that of Islam, leading to a concept of a Western civilization different from other civilizations. In the fifteenth century, Renaissance intellectuals began to identify this civilization not only with Christianity but also with the intellectual and political achievements of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Important to the development of the idea of a distinct Western civilization were encounters with other peoples. Between 700 and 1500, encounters with the world of Islam helped define the West. But after 1500, as European ships began to move into other parts of the world, encounters with peoples in Asia, Africa, and the Americas not only had an impact on the civilizations found there but also affected how people in the West defined themselves. At the same time, as they set up colonies, Europeans began to transplant a sense of Western identity to other areas of the world, especially North America and parts of Latin America, that have come to be considered part of Western civilization. |date=2006 |publisher=Wadsworth|isbn=9780534646028|language=en|pages=xxxiii}}</ref><ref name= "Stearns">{{서적 인용| last= Stearns | first=Peter N. | author-link=Peter Stearns|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mYS23mrnqksC|title=Western Civilization in World History |quote=During the 18th and 19th centuries, Western civilization expanded geographically, in whole or in part. [...] a host of major trends... occurred essentially in parallel, suggesting significant cohesion within an expanded Western civilization. The industrial revolution, though launched in Britain, turned out to be a transatlantic process very quickly. ... The same applies to the new movement to limit per capita birth rates – the demographic transition that ran through Western civilization during the 19th century... and the outcomes by 1900, in unprecedentedly low birth rates per family combined with rapidly falling infant death rates, was essentially the same through out this expanded Western world. |date=2008 |publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781134374755|language=en|pages=94–95}}</ref>

== 같이 보기 ==
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* [[미국화]]
* [[아메리카]]
* [[영어권]]
* [[대서양주의]]
* [[탈아론]]
* [[동서양 이분법]]
* [[유럽화]]
* [[제1세계]]
* [[프랑스어권]]
* [[글로벌 노스와 글로벌 사우스]]
* [[스페인어권]]
* [[마그레브]]
* [[먼로주의]]
* [[3개의 세계 모델]]
* [[서양 밀교]]
* [[서반구]]
* [[서양 철학]]
* [[서양 문화]]
* [[반서방 감정]]
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; 관련 단체
* [[유럽 연합 정상회의]]
* [[유럽 경제 지역]]
* [[유럽 연합]]
* [[G7]]
* [[북대서양 조약 기구]]
; 유엔 대표
* [[동유럽 지역 그룹]]
* [[서유럽과 기타 지역 그룹]]

== 각주 ==
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