The Huntington thesis and Turkey's new role

World history has unfolded in ways that have bolstered the Huntington thesis, the essence of which was that with the end of the Cold War, cultural impulses and feelings would rise to the surface and drive global events. In this new era of cultural sensibility, said Huntington, a large burden for ensuring peace falls to the civilizational “core states’’—America for the West; Russia for the Orthodox civilization; China for the Sinic; India for the Hindu, which would be “sources of order within civilizations and, through negotiations with other core states, between civilizations.’’ 

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