The prescient ‘Clash of Civilizations’
By H, D. S. Greenway | Tuesday, July 8, 2008 | The Boston Globe
“…Fifteen years have passed since Foreign Affairs published Samuel Huntington’s ‘The Clash of Civilizations?’ in its summer issue. It has subsequently become the most sought after article for reprints in the magazine’s history. It, and the book by the same title minus the question mark, caused a storm among political scientists, many of whom simply refused to believe that, after the end of the Cold War, future conflicts would be over something so old fashioned. Only George Kennan’s article on how to contain the USSR after World War II, bylined X, can compete with Huntington’s in terms of influence.
‘The dominant source of conflict will be cultural,’ Huntington famously predicted, and ‘fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future.’….”…BS
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