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Parent topics

• Civilization [r]: "The highest cultural grouping and the broadest level of cultural identity short of that which distinguishes humans from other species" (Samuel Huntington) ^[e]
• Culture (social) [r]: UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (2002) defined culture as "... the set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features of a society or a social group..." that "encompasses, in addition to art and literature, lifestyles, ways of living together, value systems, traditions and beliefs". ^[e]
• Futures studies [r]: The discipline of predicting futures, which is not limited to extrapolating from present trends or to a single possible future ^[e]

Subtopics

• Nationalism [r]: Strong belief that the interests of a particular nation-state are of primary importance. ^[e]
• Tribalism [r]: A group identity that regards either other tribal groups, or modernism, or popular culture, as a hostile other ^[e]
• Core state [r]: Within a civilization, one or more nations that provide a dominant cultural influence ^[e]
• Lone country [r]: Nations isolated, from larger civilizations, by language, religion, or other factors, such as Haiti, Ethiopia and Japan; if they define a civilization, such as Japan, they are also core states ^[e]
• Cleft country [r]: A nation with sufficiently large and distinct cultural groupings as to have separated (e.g., Czechoslovakia or Yugoslavia), semi-separated (e.g., Sudan, Tanzania), or have a threat of separatism (e.g., Canada) ^[e]
• Torn country [r]: Countries with predominant cultures with leaders that want to shift it into a different one, such as Peter the Great in Russia or Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Turkey. ^[e]
• Fault line conflicts [r]: A term introduced by Samuel Huntington, micro-level clashes between groups from different civilizations within the same cleft country, such as the former Yugoslavia ^[e]
• Core state conflicts [r]: Add brief definition or description

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• Modernization [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Westernization [r]: The process by which Western cultural values, including religion and politics, are introduced into a society undergoing technological modernization ^[e]
• Globalization [r]: The interaction of peoples, cultures, and businesses worldwide, which tend to overcome traditional national and cultural boundaries ^[e]
• Thomas P.M. Barnett [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • The Pentagon's New Map [r]: A book on grand strategy and world development by Thomas P. M. Barnett, which postulates that world conflict is chiefly due to lack of "connectedness" of nations to the information-intensive core of nations; he also proposes a partnership, in peace enforcement, between the high-technology "takedown" function and the "nation-building" role ^[e]

• • The End of History and the Last Man [r]: An argument, by Francis Fukuyama, that universal history, through the forces of "the logic of modern science" and the "struggle for recognition" make liberal democracy a natural end state of historical development. ^[e]
  • Isothymia [r]: As defined by Francis Fukuyama, "the desire to be recognized as the equal of other people", or dignity; a refinement of Plato's definition of thymos ^[e]
  • Megalothymia [r]: A term coined by Francis Fukuyama, building on Plato's concept of the spiritual part of the soul, which drives tyrannical ambition; the compulsion to be superior to others ^[e]
• Benjamin Barnett [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Jihad vs. McWorld [r]: A book by Benjamin Barber, first published in 1995, examining the interaction of globalization and consumerism with religious fundamentalism and tribalism; McDonald's, MTV, and Macintosh are used as icons for consumerism ^[e]