![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That, I think, influenced Huntington a great deal, didn't it? But in Yugoslavia, there was a war that had Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats and Bosnian Muslims at one another's throats. SIEGEL: For some context here, in the early 1990s, European communism had imploded. On the other hand, it's also fair to say that many of the individual arguments about the specifics didn't get at the larger point, which is really about how much culture matters as opposed to broad, impersonal structural forces like geopolitics or economics or ideology. Is it fair to say that elite opinion scoffed at this schematic of the world civilizations? SIEGEL: On Huntington's map of the world's civilizations, there was: Western, Latin American, African, Eastern Orthodox, Islamic, Confucian, Hindu and Japanese. And this summer, Foreign Affairs, which is published by the Council on Foreign Relations, marked the 20th anniversary with an issue that collected many of the writings - pro and con - that have clashed over the "Clash of Civilization."Īnd joining us today is the editor of the Foreign Affairs, Gideon Rose. 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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