Intra-Cultural Clash
Cultural Confrontation-Related Understanding

By: Dieter Senghaas
Dieter Senghaas is one of the most outstanding German Radicalist theorists with great and worthy-of-reading writings on development, security, and peace. This book is a major and controversial contribution to key contemporary issues such as multi-culturity, cultural reaction against modernization, culture clash, and potentials of multi-cultural tolerance and dialogue. Finally, it is a considerable addition to the criticism of core clashes of cultures. Bob Jasob, Professor of Social Science, Lancaster University

Senghaas has contributed to the revival of civilization and world order-related studies. He rejects the intellectual trend, which perceives civilizations as static entities that can never evolve, and which approaches culture clash as inevitable. On the other hand, he focuses on the dynamics of development through internal conflicts of ideologies and interests by conquering chaos in changing societies.

Robert W. Cox - York University, Canada

This book is a major controversial contribution to modern debates ignited by Francis Fokoyama' End of History and Samuel Huntington's Culture Clash. Dieter Senghaas addresses some of our contemporary political issues such as:

• How can societies tolerate multiculturity
• Tolerance as a successful solution.
• The role of "Culture" in contemporary conflicts, which are described as culture-generated.
• Will international politics of the 21st century get heavily involved in cultural conflicts?

Senghaas explores these issues within non-Western cultures contexts, such as the Chinese political philosophy, Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism. He further studies the possibility of emerging constructive cultural dialogue. His distinctive and radical approach keeps pace with the recent updates, besides it is vital for individuals involved in politics, international relations, social sciences, cultural and development studies, religions and international political economics.

Professor of Social Science at the University of Bremen, Germany, Professor of Political Science, Sociology, Philosophy and History at the University of Tübingen, Amherst College, the University of Michigan and Frankfurt University. He was a Research Fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University till 1970.

In 1972 he was appointed Professor of International Relations at the University of Frankfurt, moving in 1978 to the University of Bremen, where he has been engaged in Peace, Conflict and Development research. He was also a Research Director at (PRIF) Peace Research Institute, Frankfurt (1971-1978).

His works in Political Science, Peace Research, and Development issues include many monographs and edited books, published in German and in several foreign languages, including The European Experience (1985) and The Clash within Civilizations (2002).

In 1987 he received the International Peace Research Award.

Shawki Galal

Born in Cairo on 30th October 1931, Shawki Jalal is a Political and Social Scientist as well as a member of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Culture and the Algerian Supreme Council of the Arab League Translation Institute. His translation include books in Philosophy and Political Sciences.

His cooperation with Knowledge World (Alam Al Ma'rifa)in Kuwait and Arabic Studies Center in Beirut resulted in the translation of several important books.

His twelve political and historical publications are a treasure to the Arabic library.

In 1984 he received the Kuwait Organizational Award for Scientific Advance in Translation.