Headscarf Issue in France and Samuel P. Huntington’s Theory of “The Clash of Civilizations”

Abstract

An  American political scientist Francis  Fukuyama wrote a book in 1992  “ The End of History and the Last man.”  In this book  Fukuyama presented the idea that after the collapse of Soviet Union in 1991 cold war has ended. In post cold war world the liberal democracy will be the final  form of government.Western civilization and ideas would be dominant in all over the world.

            This idea was not only rejected by another  American Political scientist Samuel P. Huntington rather he presented a new theory in his Lecture at ‘American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy  research’ in 1992.He said  that the nation states will disappear and differences between nations will emerge on the basis of  religion and culture. In his book S.P Huntington has identified  seven possibly eight civilization and finally concluded that  the ultimate clash would be  between Western and Islamic civilizations.

            Here the question arises that as  Samuel P. Huntington has sketched the future politics, whether  the Headscarf  issue in France is a smaller reflection of  a big confrontation between Islamic and Western Civilizations?