Thirty years on: rethinking Huntington’s Clash of Civilisations

Thirty years on, why revisit Professor Samuel Huntington’s seminal and widely debated book, The Clash of Civilisations and the Remaking of World Order , published in 1996?

Not to celebrate a thesis. Not to settle old academic debates. But because the language of a “clash of civilisations” is returning – and beginning to shape the way states think and act – risking a self-fulfilling prophecy in an increasingly dangerous and