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The Clash of Civilizations

Samuel Huntington
1996 · 367 pages

Ideology no longer divides the world, Huntington argued: culture does, along fault lines between seven or eight civilizations. After 9/11 nobody could discuss the West and Islam without answering him.

★ 4.8