The Western Civilization, also known as Jewish-Christian Civilization, is appointed by the American sociologist Samuel Huntington as being incompatible with the cultural values of the Islamic Civilization in his Clash of Civilization Theory. Geopolitically this turns the Mediterranean Sea in a cultural frontier splitting two different regions, the Christian Europe and the Muslim Middle East. These cultural differences are worsened by the differences on the development level between the countries of European façade and the Arabic façade of Mediterranean Sea. However, the economic hegemony of Germany inside the European Union submitted the European Mediterranean countries to fall on debt, economic stagnation and unemployment, such way these countries also found themselves impoverished in the new world order. This put basically all Mediterranean basin in a same precarious economic condition relativizing the usual North-South view adopted for the basin. In other hand, the Chinese rising opens possibilities to the formation of a Mediterranean geoeconomic space for cooperation of the member states, replacing Germany as main economic partner. This article has as goal to discuss if the contradiction among Christians and Muslims is true utilizing the historic-dialect method to do a confrontation between the Huntington thesis and its logical antithesis, that is, the Mediterranean Sea as a civilizatory pole of cultural integration. In this case, the Mediterranean world could to settle an alternative civilization, the Islamic-Christian Civilization. The utilized materials are books of that authors who studied the region, such as Yves Lacoste and Fernand Braudel, further others academic articles about the region.
Mots clés : The West|The Mediterrane|Europe|Middle East
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