"It has become clear over the last year that the upheavals in the Islamic and Arab world have become a clash within a civilization rather than a clash between civilizations," Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies wrote recently.
And so the strategist Anthony Cordesman is probably right when he argues: It's best we now speak of the "Arab Decade" or the "Arab Quarter Century" — a long period of intrastate and intraregional instability, in which a struggle for both the future of Islam and the future of the individual Arab nations blend together into a "clash within a civilization".
This internal energy calculation estimates steric clashes within a conformation, as well as torsional energy.
"Today, with the split between Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, we are witnessing a clash within the Salafi-jihadi strain itself, a division not about the end goal — both sides believe in a restored caliphate — but how quickly to get there".
By putting back the final decision on the new submarines until 2016, Mr. Cameron conveniently averted a clash within his coalition government over whether Britain should retain a nuclear strike force at all.
By The New Yorker February 19 , 2009In this week's Political Scene podcast, John Cassidy casts a skeptical eye on the small size of Obama's foreclosure plan; Ryan Lizza anticipates a clash, within the Obama Administration, between the budget hawks and those pushing health care; and Jane Mayer takes issue with critics who say that Obama's counterterrorism policies look a lot like Bush's.
Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, and Shimon Peres, the Israeli foreign minister, jointly pledged a renewed drive for peace today, though the choreographed harmony of their meeting was marred by a clash within earshot between Israeli and Palestinian fighters that injured three Israeli soldiers.
Thousands of Romania's Roma, also known as Gypsies, have come to a similar conclusion in recent years, heading for the relative wealth of Western Europe, and setting off a clash within the European Union over just how open its "open borders" are.
In reality and more immediately, there is a clash within civilizations.
And now that shift is prompting a bitter clash within the state's Republican Party.
Despite all the musical fury that had come before, this was the most discordant moment of the night: proof of a culture clash within this seemingly unified crowd.
