%0 Journal Article
%T Role of the Religious Factor in Expansion of Europe
%A Daniel Andri£¿an
%J Acta Universitatis Danubius : Relationes Internationales
%D 2008
%I Danubius University
%X In the course of human communities priority was preservation of identity, sovereignty,independence and territorial integrity. States as the main framework of political organization, hadintended to build national security policy to protect and promote their interests. An increasing numberof conflicts have been caused or inflamed by cultural differences exacerbate, ethnic or religious.Therefore, religions and their associated phenomena have been given new relevant in the context ofsecurity, imposing civilization lately approach to security. This requires thorough research of cultural,religious phenomena and linguistic aspects, as Samuel Huntington did, who is the initiator of thismodel civilizational approach to security analysis. By applying this model the following conclusions:reality forces of integration in the world is exactly what generates forces of cultural claims,civilizational knowledge, in a sense the world is bipolar, but the main distinction is between the Westand as far dominant civilization and all others, however, share more than anything. In short, the worldis a world divided between Western and non-Western world more, nation states are and will remainthe most important actors in international affairs, but their interests, associations and conflictsbetween them are becoming more limited by factors culture and civilization, the world is indeedanarchic, punctuated by tribal and nationality conflicts, but conflicts that make the biggest threats tostability are those between states or groups from different civilizations.
%K interreligious
%K Europe
%K security analysis
%K ethnic conflicts
%K fundamentalism
%U http://journals.univ-danubius.ro/index.php/internationalis/article/view/1462/1208