Analysis Of Cultural Security And Strategic Thinking From The Viewpoint Of The Clash Of Civilization

Samuel P. Huntington, Professor of the Harvard and the world famous Politician, delivered an article entitled "The Clash of Civilizations? " in an American (diplomats) Quarterly 1993. In this article, he proposed a paradigm about the clash of civilizations after the cold war's international politics for the first time, caused an unprecedented reaction and controversy. According to the magazine's editors, the controversy that this article caused in three years had exceeded any articles published since the 1940s. Samuel constantly amended and improved his viewpoints in his following works, and finally formed an unique and insightful culture historical value. The clash of civilizations has also become a hot issue for scholars in the past 15 years. By analyzing Samuel P's opinions, this article is to explore the China's cultural security, and the development strategy and proposal of culture development from the perspective of the clash of civilization. The thesis consists four parts:Introduction: Summarizing Samuel P's theory of conflict civilizations and reviewing the theoretical research on the security of culture, the author proposes the topics and basic ideas of this article.The second part: Discuss Huntington's the clash of civilizations theory. Firstly, discuss the ideological roots of Huntington's culture historical value. Secondly, elaborate the content of the clash of civilizations and generalize it from three aspects. Finally, this article reveals the nature as well as the learning sense of the clash of civilizations theory by overview recent years' research and evaluation of scholars both domestic and aboard.The third part: By revealing the international politics pattern through the clash of civilizations theory, analyze the culture security of our country at the current stage. Firstly, sum up and review our country's culture security since modern times and then discuss the new austere situation and challenges of our native culture from the viewpoint of the clash of civilization. The forth part: Focus on the developing strategy of Chinese culture at the new stage. On one part, the clash of civilizations increasingly plays a major part in the change of the world politics pattern. On the other part, Chinese culture faces serious challenges. So we must pay great attention to safeguard our national culture's security and ensure it a sound development. Some opinions and suggestions would be put forward about the development of culture.A lot of scholars judge the basic concept of Samuel P is that, the clash of civilization is just the semblance; the conflict of interest is the essence. Scholars reached consensus on this conclusion, but criticize from the ideological couldn't comprehend the essence value of Samuel P. So, this article pays more attention on the rationality of the clash of civilizations' paradigm. On the basis of that, we have to follow the tide of the world's development, emphasis the coexistence of multi-culture, establish a science strategy of culture development, so as to safeguard state security of culture and enable the culture to flourish.Innovation of this article: Firstly, try to choose the typical or representative ideas of scholars both domestic and aboard, and make a simple induction and evaluation. Secondly, demonstrate by way of combining history and choose the security of culture as the joint of theory and reality. Integrate theory with practice, to indicate its real significance.