The Clash of Civilizations at 25

TAI presents three essays on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the publication of Samuel P. Huntington’s “The Clash of Civilizations?”

Huntington’s Legacy
Francis Fukuyama
Samuel Huntington’s greatness didn’t lie in the fact that he was right about everything. Rather, it lay in his ability to conceptualize big ideas in a wide variety of fields.

Right Book, Wrong Title
Daniel E. Burns
The Clash paradigm was obsolete before the book was published, but the insights into politics that gave rise to it remain as relevant as ever.

Clash of Civilizations—or Clash Within Civilizations?
Seth Cropsey & Harry Halem
As parlous as the clash of civilizations might be, the implosion of our own is much more to be feared.

Published on: September 7, 2018
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