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Iiss armed conflict database3/15/2024 Adding China’s 1.35 billion to the equation means that about a third of the world’s population theoretically remain outside of the West’s triumphant ideology. Indeed, these demographic facts feature prominently in Huntington’s list of reasons for the clash of civilizations between Islam and the West. The world’s Muslim population, at 1.6 billion, constitutes 23 percent of the total world population, with significant growth among its youth. There are 49 Muslim majority countries in the world, about one fourth of the total U.N. The Islamic world is a massive demographic entity. Yet history does not begin or end with the big ideas of big powers. Certainly Islam, without a large or great power in its ranks, could pose no traditional Realpolitik challenge to liberalism. What about the Islamic world? Fukuyama dismissed the potential of Islam to offer a political alternative to either liberalism or communism. Yet Russia and China might signal the “return of geopolitics” in the international system.
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