Samuel Huntington's Civilization Paradigm. A Way to Understand the Contemporary Problems of the West?

Abstract

The article represents a methodological analysis of the civilization paradigm as perceived by  Samuel Huntington. The analysis is based  on  statistical studies of the demographic situation in countries identified with the western civilization and those of the Islamic world. The research dwells  on studies referred to by  Huntington himself in the mid-nineties as well as  on findings dealing with present-day  realities. The   thesis considered right and endorsed  by the American scholar   is that young and fast-growing populations constitute the driving force of breakthrough historic developments.