Despre naufragiul civilizațiilor

Abstract

The current situation of the Arab and Muslim world is of great concern for the entire mankind. And the causes of the turmoil, despair and violence are to be seen in the inappropriate interaction with the Western world. Not only the Western style of doing profit affected the more traditional and tranquil succession of generations, by shaking the foundations of those societies. Yet the Western powers interfered with internal issues by colonizing, partitioning territories, fueling local quarrels. They proposed ideologies and economic models that failed, due to their own rivalry during the Cold War. With the final defeat of socialism, radical Islamism turned out to be the more successful successor. Yet by fighting radicalism, Western societies opened the door to authoritarian methods of surveillance and control, censorship and repression, that make the democratic life impossible.

Keywords

• colonialism
• arab countries
• history
• totalitarianism
• capitalism