Clash of civilization goes to Syria
Yuba Nath Lamsal In a classic essay written and published more than twenty years ago, American political scientist Samuel Huntington argued that with the end of the ugly Cold War the fundamental source of international conflict has shifted from ideological, political, economic and social issue to religious and cultural issues. Huntington is of the view that the ideological conflict that was the major phenomenon of the international conflict during the Cold War came to an end as the Western capitalist ideology triumphed over the communism that saw its last blow in the collapse of Soviet Union. Contrary to the widely perceived view, the international conflict did not come to an end after the end of the Cold War. Instead the international conflict took a new form and shape. According to the American political scientist, religion and culture would play a dominant role in the international conflict and the conflict would be between the Western value system and oriental beliefs n