Culture and World Order

Language learning and language culture in a changing world

To  communicate  effectively,  learners  have  to  become  proficient  in  both  the  language  and  the culture of the target language.  Being aware of socio-cultural frameworks does not mean that as an outcome of instruction learners have to become "native-like," but an awareness of L2 cultural norms can allow learners to make their own informed choices of how to become competent and astute l...

dialectic of war and world order

the purpose of this paper is to apply ibn-khaldun’s dialectic of asabiyya to explain the nature of relationship between war and the world order in the modern era via ‘macro structural change’. it is argued here that these changes in the world order in the modern times have a dialectical relationship with war. here, ibn-khaldun’s approach to historical change is applied for the explication of th...

Globalization, Civilization and World Order

How are they related to each other? This chapter seeks to answer these questions. Answering the first is simple. Obviously, the current world order cannot be fully understood without taking ‚globalization‛ into consideration. The effects of Globalization reach every corner of the world in different scope and degree. Why is ‚civilization‛ important? It is important because civilization incorpora...

Culture, Lifestyle and the Information Revolution in the Middle East and Muslim World

For over two decades, the ‘information revolution’ in the MiddleEast has been framed overwhelmingly in terms of media, more of it,and in comparisons to mass media – from the advent of any-to-anycommunication to ad hoc conceptualizations such as ‘crowd-sourcing’ or‘citizen journalism’ – that register the multiplication of voices, channelsand eroding boundaries in spheres of communication. The re...

Explanation of Theoretical Basics of Analysis of the World Order