Samuel Huntington’s controversial theory known as the “Clash of Civilizations” has attracted worldwide attention since the day it was published. Following the publication of his thesis, which argues that conflict in the post-Cold War world is cultural rather than ideological and/or economic, discussins about real-world politics have centered on this theme, including debates about such significant issues as the Greater Middle East Project and so on. Huntington’s theories have been taken by the people of the world to represent the plans and wishes of American foreign policy.

 

The well-known researcher Ibrahim Karagul, who published his interpretation of a new scenario in May 2006, interprets this new plan as the “Second Step in the Clash of Civilizations.”

 

Writing from within one of the most important think-tanks of the British imperial system, Chatham House, Rosemary Hollis published articles referring to a “Europe and Middle East-Sectarian War Zone,” conjuring up a horrendous scenario detailing clashes between ethnic groups, and particularly between Islamic sects in post-Saddam Iraq.

 

Acknowledged by the international media for the reports he has made about CIA torture planes and human trafficking, researcher/writer Ibrahim Karagül now develops the next part of the theory of the “Clash of Civilizations” in his new book, Second Step. 

 

The twenty-first century has begun with a series of globally devastating crises. Conflicts between civilizations, the war on terror, regime change, energy wars, disarmament, geopolitical supremacy theories, global power and market conflicts, and conflict scenarios carried out upon identities, have all drawn the world, and humanity, into a dark future.

 

The Middle East... the region that controls the flows of energy, is located on land and sea trade routes, and develops theories of global supremacy: the place most heavily populated by Muslim societies is at the center of this great war. And gradually it becomes a greater target.

 

Second Step questions the nature and aims of the assassinations and conflicts currently taking place in the in the areas in which we live. Is the new chapter in the Middle East likely to be a Sunni-Shiite clash? How are the US, the UK, and Israel planning a resolution that could easily be a historical tragedy for the Islamic World?

 

What countries does Israel work with in Northern Iraq? What kinds of negotiations does Ankara carry out on the Kurdish Issue? What kinds of effects will nuclear armament have on the region’s fate? What steps is Turkey taking towards becoming a nuclear power? Who did assassinate Refik Khariri? The assassinations of Ahmad Sah Mesud and Sheikh Yasin, Aarafat’s mysterious death...secret networks in the Middle East…the 40-billion dollar Stoffel scandal…the CIA’s secret torture headquarters… Where is Turkey in this picture?