TY - JOUR AU - Abdel-Malek, Anouar PY - 2000/11/26 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Civilizational Orientation in the Making of the New World JF - Journal of World-Systems Research JA - JWSR VL - 6 IS - 3 SE - World-Systems Contemporary DO - 10.5195/jwsr.2000.196 UR - http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/196 SP - 564-579 AB - The historical moment of the position of the problem, from the onset, leads to the heart of the sudden perplexity about the nature, rĂ´le and prospect of ?the civilizational question? in our times. While the very category of ?civilization? was avoided until recently, a ?urry of amazement-cum-disquiet has been pervading the public mind, more speci?cally the intellectual circles used to the long-prevailing dichotomies of social thought (?left? and ?right?; ?developed? and ?under-developed?; ?center? and ?periphery?; ?conservative? and ?radical?; ?reactionary? and ?progressive?; ?religious? and ?secular?). All of a sudden, as it were, on the morrow of the implosion of the former U.S.S.R., the end of the bi-polar system, the advent of unipolar world hegemonism in 1989-1991, a resounding essay in 1993 came as a shock. ?Civilizations,? ?nally in the limelight, were deemed to ?clash.? ER -