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Clash of Civilizations, twenty years on

It is rare for an article written decades earlier to remain in public memory leave alone retain analytical relevance. The year 2013 marks the 20th anniversary of one such piece of writing: Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations? Written in the Summer 1993 issue of Foreign Affairs, the article has generated a huge literature, largely polemical, some useful and most eclipsed by the original piece and its later avatar published as a book three years later. The article continues to remain fresh and pose interesting questions and provide provocative answers.

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