ABSTRACT
Cultural struggles, understood as embittered political clashes over the organization of public order, are a reality. They are not, as argued in debates over Huntington’s theory, geoculturally determined in the style of ‘Islam versus the West’. Today, after the conclusion of the decolonization process, during which they played a specific role with respect to developmental policy, cultural struggles now take place within various, mainly medium and lower-level contexts, that is as a rule within individual societies and their sub-categories. Here they undergo different degrees of intensity, which can be categorized as follows.
