Western Civilization
Western culture, sometimes equated with Western civilization, Occidental culture, the Western world, Western society, and European civilization, is the heritage of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, artifacts and technologies of the Western World that originated in or are associated with Europe. The term also applies beyond Europe to countries and cultures whose histories are strongly connected to Europe by immigration, colonization, or influence. For example, Western culture includes countries in Northern America, such as Canada and the United States, or Australasia, such as Australia and New Zealand, whose language and demographic ethnicity majorities are of …
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AEI: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research · 25 March 2024 English
Key Points In the 20th century, the American Political Science Association (APSA) and the field it represents promoted pluralism, but because of behind-the-scenes pressure from activists and generational change, in …
Critical theories overturn most aspects of Western civilization—including the rule of law, the scientific …
Council on Geostrategy · 22 March 2024 English
Importantly, A I is a foundational technology: t his i s a strategically-relevant development in and of itself, in t hat A I also catalyses t he acceleration of all …
Kranzberg and Carroll W . Pursell, Technology in Western civilization (New Y ork: Oxford University Press, 1967) …
IFRI: Institut Français des Relations Internationales · 22 March 2024 English
Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the Russian government has been proactive in the ideological realm to ensure the sustainability of the war for Russian society. …
as well as those who challenge classical Western civilization with postmodern theories.49 Opposed to … promoting Christian values, defending classical Western civilization (both in the sense of Antiquity and in …
Wilson Center Canada · 18 March 2024 English
ideology,” support for oil pipelines, liberalization of gun laws and protecting the values of “Western civilization”—the votes it gained may have been a harbinger of a new immigration politics in Canada.5 Recent …
of gun laws and protecting the values of “Western civilization”—the votes it gained may have been a harbinger …
Hope Not Hate · 14 March 2024 English
While some of this can be explained by also seen the continuing growth of a Radical more aggressive policing, it is also symptomatic Right ecosystem that includes GB News and …
want nothing less than the destruction of western civilization.” Soros has long been a target for 72 | …
CEIP: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · 6 March 2024 English
Over the past two decades, dozens of governments have used regulations, laws, and vilifying narratives to restrict the ability of civil society organizations to act and speak. Now, a similar …
want nothing less than the destruction of western civilization,” in September 2023.56 In a 2018 tweet, …
CFPPR: Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research · 26 February 2024 English
For instance, the Dependency School, through its critique of the exclusive focus of the mainstream theories on the core capitalist countries, has expanded the horizons of the discipline, shifting the …
Western-centric IR theories consider the West and Western civilization as the sole, superior, and ideal reference … See; John M. Hobson, Eastern Origins of Western Civilization (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, … Cambridge, 2003. ———. Eastern Origins of Western Civilization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, …
Cato Institute · 22 February 2024 English
both Washington and Brussels. For some officials, the imbroglio appeared to signal the end of Western civilization. Even worse, Europeans realized that they might have to do more for themselves militarily …
imbroglio appeared to signal the end of Western civilization. Even worse, Europeans realized that they …
BESA: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies · 7 February 2024
This was done because firearms undermined the sovereignty of the central government and the prominent role of the samurais in the country's social structure. [...] The naval battle in 3 …
excessive concern lies at the core of modern Western civilization. As Cambridge professor John Gray points …
Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network · 6 February 2024 English
in the massacres of Palestinians by Zionist militias Later, in 1976, Jamil Hilal concisely articulated the during the 1948 Nakba, the 1982 Sabra and Shatila logic of settler colonialism as …
Despite the Egyptian “intended to save Western civilization” and that if it government’s repeated refusals …