Samuel Huntington died five years ago, but the often furious arguments that his thesis inspired can still be heard now and again. SIEGEL: There would be a "Clash of Civilizations." That was the title of the Foreign Affairs article, which grew into a book.
And if one looked at the evidence, it seems to me that it is overwhelming that nations are going to be aligning themselves along cultural lines. SAMUEL HUNTINGTON: The big question is what will be the patterns of association and of conflict among nations in the post-Cold War world. The Cold War was over and the Soviet Union was finished. The fundamental source of conflict in this new world, he wrote, will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The political scientist Samuel Huntington declared a new phase to world politics.
Twenty years ago this summer, the journal Foreign Affairs published what proved to be a very controversial article.
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