In the Name of Progress and Peace: the “standard of civilization’ and the universalizing project

The ideal of civilisation: Its origins and socio‐political character

There has been a revival in the use of the terms ‘civilisation’ and ‘civilisations’ to describe and explain events in the social sciences and humanities, nowhere more so than in politics and international affairs. This revival has seen the terms interpreted and applied in a variety of manners and different…

To Rethink Standards of Civilisation, Start with the End

Many people recognise that there is a need to distinguish between states in the international system, such as on the basis of legitimacy. For much of the system’s history the means of drawing such distinctions have been standards of civilisation. For some, the need to divide and separate is unavoidable;…

Globalisation and the shifting Standard of Civilization in international society

Globalisation and the shifting Standard of Civilization in international society Skip navigation The Australian National University The Australian National University Open Research Library Search query Search Skip navigation Home About Contribute Publishing Policy Copyright Contact Statistics My Open Research close My Open Research Your list of unfinished submissions or submissions…

Civilization and Its Consequences

This article outlines the origins and meanings of the concept of civilization in Western political thought. In doing so it necessarily explores the nature of the relationship between civilization and closely related ideas such as progress and modernity. In exploring these concepts, some of their less savory aspects are revealed,…

Eurocentrism and civilization

In his study of the word civilization, the French linguist Émile Benveniste (1971: 289) states, ‘the whole history of modern thought and the principal intellectual achievements in the western world are connected with the creation and handling of a few dozen essential words which are all the common possession of…

Politics in a World of Civilizations: Long-term Perspectives on Relations between Peoples

It is a truism to say that the discipline of international relations (IR) is primarily concerned with relations between states. That is not to say that IR is only concerned with states, but by definition, relations between states is what the discipline is largely about. One of the criticisms often…

‘Poisons Disguised with Honey’: European Expansion and the Sacred Trust of Civilization

For many centuries now, those considering themselves civilized have carried out numerous atrocities—from abductions to dispossession to massacres—against those thought to be less civilized, all in the name of civilization. This has particularly been the case in the last 500 years when Europeans came into contact with indigenous peoples in…

Civilization and Savagery in the Crucible of War

The casting of the war on terrorism as a war fought on behalf of or for Civilization against some less-than-civilized Other—terrorists and their cohorts—is a significant point. The image being generated and marketed is one of a war between the civilized defenders of everything that Civilization represents and the savage…

The river of inter-civilisational relations: The ebb and flow of peoples, ideas and innovations

As a tool for understanding the world in which we live the study of the history of political thought is stunted because of a preoccupation with the Western canon as the history of political thought to the exclusion of other histories and traditions. This ongoing exclusion is itself facilitated by…

WHAT PRICE PEACE? ON THE DIALECTICAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CIVILIZATION AND WAR

It is generally understood that that there is a direct correlation between civilized society and a propensity for cooperation and peace over confrontation and violent conflict, both in domestic affairs and in international relations. Under the influence of democratic and liberal theories of perpetual peace, this leads to the assumption…

Inter-civilizational relations : why clash when you can cooperate?

Most people tend to think of themselves primarily as individuals, as members of a family or community, or as citizens of a state. Most of us, however, also belong to larger collectives known as civilizations (Arlt and Daviau 2009; Holton and Nasson 2009). Throughout much of human history, it is…

En nombre de la civilización: guerra, conquista y colonialismo

At its inception, the idea of civilization was imbued with a sense of progress, peace, and optimism. The historical record, however, belies much of this sense of optimism. Somewhat paradoxically, civilization has come to be closely associated with conflict and conquest. In the two-hundred-and-sixty years since the term was coined,…

Civilisation and hierarchy go hand-in-hand

As I have outlined in detail (Bowden 2009, 2009a Vol. 1), virtually since its inception in the mid Eighteenth century, the term civilisation has been imbued with both descriptive and evaluative dimensions. It is in large part because of this evaluative and normative nature that the concept of civilisation is…

The Role Of Colonial Mentality As A Soft Threat On Civilizational Memory

Colonial mentality as a psychological characteristic of the colonial period plays a special role in shaping opinion and action in post-colonial society. One of the serious points of the influence of this feature is its effect on human memory and their attitudes. On this basis, the present study aims to…

Local Civilization and Political Decency: Equilibrium and the Position of the Sultanate in Java

Philanthropic Aspects of Islam: The Case of the Fundamentalist Movement in Indonesia

Confrontation Between Global and Local Civilizations: Nuclear Power Plant and Local Protests

Religion as an Organic Entity: The Emergence of Fundamental-Liberalism in Islam in Indonesia and in Japanese Shinran Buddhism

The Challenge to Religious Tolerance: Fundamentalist Resistance to a Non-Muslim Leader in Indonesia

It is important to question whether a long-standing tradition of religious tolerance in Indonesia has been overturned by the 2017 gubernatorial election. Equally important is that we explore the influence of religion in relation to the socio-political behavior of people. In the following parts of this paper, we attempt to…

Islamic Capitalism: The Muslim Approach to Economic Activities in Indonesia

Michael Gubser, The Far Reaches: Phenomenology, Ethics, and Social Renewal in Central Europe.

Civilizational Dynamics of “Hybrid Warfare”

Since the end of the Cold War, analysts have struggled to make sense of the proliferation of smaller scale conflicts. Several labels have been used to describe this phenomenon, the most recent being “Hybrid Warfare.” This paper attempts to analyze them through the perspective of civilizational theory. Very rarely, however,…

David Christian. Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History

What is history? Or rather, what are the appropriate time-scales that can be constituted as “history”? The general consensus among scholars is that history is the study of approximately the last 5,000 years or so due to the existence of written records. Anything prior to that is generally considered pre-history,…

Leonid Grinin. Macrohistory and Globalization

The Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin is once quoted as saying, “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” There should be a parallel statement about how some books state extraordinarily little in multiple pages, but others speak volumes in mere sentences. A good example of…

MacGregor Knox and Williamson Murray, eds. The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300–۲۰۵۰

Carl von Clausewitz famously declared “War is but the continuation of politics by other means.” It could just as easily be declared that war is the continuation of civilization by other means, concerning how different societies and cultures fight can be reflective of their distinct characters as much as any…

CELEBRATING LEGACY OF A TITAN: IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN AND CREATION OF THE WORLD-SYSTEMS THEORY

The paper is a salute to a preeminent social scholar of our times – Immanuel M. Wallerstein (1930–2019). It briefly highlights his biography, education, and academic career, however, it is mainly concerned with his scholarly concepts and theories. The author attempts to follow the process of development of one of…

Civilizational theory in Russia – past, present, and future

Russia may be justifiably proud of an illustrious, albeit uneasy, history of achievements in civilizational theory and thought. The names of Nikolai Danilevsky, Konstantin Leontiev, Pitirim Sorokin, Nikolai Berdyaev, Lev Mechnikov, Nikolai Kondratiev, Lev Gumilev, Boris Yerasov, Nikita Moiseev, Yuri Yakovets, and many others are well known to civilizational scholars…

Phenomenon of civilization: Pitirim A. Sorokin’s Integralist approach and its limitations

During his remarkable academic career Pitirim A. Sorokin published about forty books and some five-hundred articles and essays addressing the subject of civilizations in some of his most important works. Due to the rapid globalization and related profound and multifaceted transformation of the world, interest to the macro-level sociocultural entities…

From Brinton To Goldstone: A Scientific Civilizational Perspective On The Theory Of Revolution

In order to adequately investigate the complex and volatile phenomenon of revolution, we ought to place it within a relevant scientific field of knowledge. The theoretical and methodological foundations of such a field, named Civilizational Science, have been developed by Vlad Alalykin-Izvekov (Alalykin-Izvekov, 2011). The analysis of the phenomenon of…

Pestilence and Other Calamities in Civilizational Theory: Sorokin, McNeill, Diamond, and Beyond

Pestilence and Other Calamities in Civilizational Theory: Sorokin, McNeill, Diamond, and Beyond Vlad Alalykin-IzvekovFollow Keywords calamity, “civilized diseases, ” disease vector, endemic, epidemic, great sociocultural systems, great socioeconomic systems, infectious diseases, outbreak, pandemic, plague, pestilence, revolution, social change, zoonotic diseases Abstract This paper analyses the phenomenon of pestilence through paradigmatic…

Chiming the Hours of History: The Historiosophy of Pitirim A. Sorokin As a Spring of His Integralistic Sociocultural Paradigm

The purpose here is to present an original rethinking of the genesis, evolution, essence, role, place, and significance of the philosophical and historical views of the great Russian and American philosopher, sociologist and educator Pitirim A. Sorokin. In addition, an attempt will be made to determine their place and role…

The Russian Sphinx: Contemplating Danilevsky’s Enigmatic Magnum Opus Russia and Europe

The relations between Russia and the West have never been particularly easygoing or unambiguous, and, presently, they are yet again at an all-time low. The way to better understand, as well as to successfully communicate and cooperate with another society is through learning about evolution (and revolutions) of their (as…

Mamikon Airapetian. World Civilizations and Economic Cycles: A Comparative Historical Analysis. Part 1. Concepts and Determinants of World History.

The author of scholarly materials under review is a prominent Russian scholar, Doctor of Economics Prof. Mamikon S. Airapetian, the Leading Researcher of the Department of Macroeconomic Forecasting and Planning of the Financial University (FinU), Moscow, Russia. In his book entitled World Civilizations and Economic Cycles: A Comparative Historical Analysis…

Honoring A Giant: Immanuel Wallerstein And His Contributions to Social Sciences

As a salute to a preeminent social scholar of our times, Immanuel M. Wallerstein (1930-2019), this paper briefly highlights his biography, education, and academic career; however, it is mainly concerned with his scholarly concepts and theories. The author attempts to follow the development process of one of his main contributions…

Islamization As A Force Of Global Cultural Renewal Or: The Relevance Of The Tawhidi Episteme To Modernity

Human Rights, Those Who Are Governed and the Legitimacy of Law Enforcement

Most everyone, if not all of us, wants to be happy. Peace is a common denominator frequently sought. It is human nature to seek security, another word for happiness. Human Rights, as we know, are basic rights and freedoms that inherently belong to every person.

THE CLASH OF INTERESTS: AN EXPLANATION OF THE WORLD DIS ORDER

As the parameters of the Cold War era fade, a new link has been established between the political decision-making process of the power centres of the international system and political theories. This is reflected in the recent theses of Fukuyama's End of History1 and Huntington's “The Clash of Civilisations.”2 Despite…

Cultural Pluralism in a Globalised World: Challenges to Peaceful Coexistence

In the following paragraphs I would like to highlight the impact of globalization on cultural pluralism and then the issue of how the resulting cultural pluralism might in turn impact the future pattern of the world order. The thrust of my theme is on emphasising the need to better understand…

Cultural Symbiosis and the Role Of Religion in the Contemporary World: An Islamic Perspective

The main aim of this paper is to provide an introductory discussion of the issue of the human need for a cultural symbiosis in the contemporary global community and of the constructive role that religion could play in delivering this global need. We will, however, be examining the issue at…

Towards A New Science of Civilization. A Synthetic Study of the Philosophical Views of al-Farabi, Ibn Khaldun, Arnold Toynbee, and Samuel Huntington

This article presents a synthetic study of the philosophical views of al-Farabi and Ibn Khaldun from classical Islam and Arnold Toynbee and Samuel Huntington from the modern West on the subject of civilizational science. On the basis of the Aristotelian idea of a true science, this article argues that al-Farabi…

Islamic Science, Modern Science, and Post-Modernity: Towards a New Synthesis through a TawÍÊdic Epistemology

Synthesis of ideas in all sectors of human life and thought – that is, of human civilization in general – is the very basis of the existence (raison être) of the religion of Islam. Islam has been revealed as a synthesis of all religions. It created a new civilization which…

The Nature and Extent of Criticism of Evolutionary Theory

In this essay, we will look into the existing body of criticisms which have been brought against the modern theory of evolution; we will investigate the nature and extent of these criticisms and con­ clude with an evaluation of their meanings and significance and the possible impact they will have…

The Quran’s Universal Perspective on Dialogue of Religions and Civilizations and Islam’s Theological Foundation of Peaceful Coexistence

Civilization and modernity

The Civilization and Modernization

Western Civilization, Our Tradition

What Is Western Civilization

What Is the Total Pattern of Our Western Civilization

The Urban Society and Civilization

The Unsought Springs of Civilization

The Economic Mind in American Civilization: A Review

The Crash of Western Civilization: The Limits of the Market and Democracy

The Comparative Approach to the Survey of Western Civilization

Teaching German Civilization

Selling Civilization: Toward a Cultural Analysis of America’s Economic Empire in the Late Nineteenth

Savagery and civilization: From terra nullius to the ‘tide of history’

Reflections on Kidd’s “Principles of Western Civilization”

Programs in American Civilization

Book Review: Inventing western civilization

Is Our Civilization Perishable?

Market Civilization and Its Clash with Terror

Literacy and the Civilization of Violence in 19th-Century France

Book review: The uniqueness of western civilization

Whither European Citizenship? Eros and Civilization Revisited

European Civilization, Its Origin and Development

Civilization, economic change, and trends in interpersonal violence in western societies

Civilization in Transit

Civilization at the Crossroads

Civilization and civilized in post-9/11 US presidential speeches

Civilization and Suicide

Book Review: The Sensate Culture: Western Civilization between Chaos and Transformation

Civilisation, Sovereignty and War: The Scottish Enlightenment and International Relations

Burke on Democracy as the Death of Western Civilization

American Civilization

A Measuremento f Creativity in Western Civilization

Architecture and Western Civilization

On Teaching French Civilization

Arab Responses to Hasan Hanafi’s Muqaddima fi Ilm al-Istighrab1

American Civilization

Two Civilizations and Ethnic Conflict: Islam and the West

Samuel Huntington's controversial 'Clash of Civilizations' argument posits, among other things, that the extent of both international and domestic conflict between 'civilizations' will increase with the end of the Cold War. This is expected to be especially true of clashes involving the Western and Islamic civilizations and even more so…

The Clash of Civilizations?

World politics is entering a new phase, in which the great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of international conflict will be cultural. Civilizations--the highest cultural groupings of people--are differentiated from each other by religion, history, language and tradition. These divisions are deep and increasing in importance. From Yugoslavia…

Islamo-Christian Civilization

The phrase “Islamo-Christian civilization” first appeared in 2004 in the book The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization by historian Richard W. Bulliet. It was coined with a two-fold purpose. First, in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it was proposed as a way of focusing on the shared history and…

The Impact of Islamic Civilization and Culture in Europe During the Crusades

Crusades occurred between Muslims and Christians in 1097 to 1291, which its main aim was to recapture Jerusalem by the Christians. During this time, Europeans had enough opportunity to learn about Islamic civilization and its cultural and economic benefits. Although these were ended with the political and military victory of…

Civilizational Analysis in International Relations

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