Exhuming Samuel Huntington’s theorems: Civilizational clashes, world order, and the impact on Europe
Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies
Year: 2023

In the summer 1993 Foreign Affairs issue Samuel Huntington published a pathbreaking article titled “The Clash of Civilizations.” He followed it up in 1996 with a book carrying the modified title The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. What was the reason for listing a fuller title? This article focuses therefore on the remaking of world order calling into question Huntington’s second theorem instead of his celebrated first – civilizational clashes. It provides greater explana