THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS. In 1993 Samuel Huntington would write an article in Foreign Affairs that became highly influential in global politics: The Clash of Civilizations? According to Huntington during the Cold War societies were divided by ideological differences, such as the struggle between democracy and communism. In 1993 a few years after the end of the Cold War he proposed an alternative hypothesis: “The most important distinctions among peoples are [no longer] ideological, political, or economic. They are cultural” In this article and subsequent book (note the difference in title) he ‘discovers’ eight civilizations:

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