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Introduced by [[Samuel Huntington]] in ''[[The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order]]'', '''fault line conflicts''' were first defined as clashes between civilizations within one physical nation-state. His first example was the former Yugoslavia, where Serbs from the Slavic civilization clashed with other peoples from Muslim civilization. Lebanon has its Western Christian vs. Muslim clash. | |||
The term still has value if a broader definition of "civilization" is used, so that it considers major ethnic, religious, or tribal groupings within a nation. Iraq is one such case where the fault lines create [[Islamic sectarian conflict]]. | |||
There are many cases, such as [[Rwanda]], where colonial map-drawing threw different groups into a pseudo-nation. Even harder to characterize are cases such as [[Afghanistan]], [[Pakistan]] and [[India]], where the [[Durand Line]] separated the [[Pashtun people]], or where the Kurds are separated by the states of [[Turkey]], [[Iran]] and Iraq. | |||
Revision as of 16:25, 5 June 2010
Introduced by Samuel Huntington in The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, fault line conflicts were first defined as clashes between civilizations within one physical nation-state. His first example was the former Yugoslavia, where Serbs from the Slavic civilization clashed with other peoples from Muslim civilization. Lebanon has its Western Christian vs. Muslim clash.
The term still has value if a broader definition of "civilization" is used, so that it considers major ethnic, religious, or tribal groupings within a nation. Iraq is one such case where the fault lines create Islamic sectarian conflict.
There are many cases, such as Rwanda, where colonial map-drawing threw different groups into a pseudo-nation. Even harder to characterize are cases such as Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, where the Durand Line separated the Pashtun people, or where the Kurds are separated by the states of Turkey, Iran and Iraq.