Clash of Civilizations: the good, the bad and the ugly

This course gives you a complete overview of Samuel P. Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations theory. Your instructor will be Marco Veldman, a Dutch political scientist, teacher and writer who’s master’s thesis analyzed Huntington’s theory. Marco will show you the useful, less useful and incorrect elements of the Clash of Civilization, starting with what a civilization is and the ten civilizations that can be seen in the world today.

The last section of the course provides you with extra tools and theories that help to explain and predict events in international relations and politics.

This course is meant for all those who want to be able to have an intelligent conversation about international relations and politics. And for those interested in explaining or even predicting world affairs, conflict and cooperation between countries.

You will need two things to sucessfully complete this course: some basic knowledge of today’s world affairs, such as having heard of some of the major conflicts in the world of today or the recent past. If you regurarly follow the news, you’ll have that basic knowledge. The second thing you need is motivation to concentrate yourself. This isn’t an easy going course but it will give you a lot more than just getting an understandig of the Clash of Civilizations.

See you soon!