The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

The general take

David Sacks cites Huntington's Clash of Civilizations as a prescient corrective to the optimistic 1990s consensus, arguing that Huntington correctly distinguished between modernization and Westernization—a distinction the podcast world apparently now recognizes as important but was dismissed at the time.

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The classic study of post-Cold War international relations, more relevant than ever in the post-9/11 world, with a new foreword by Zbigniew Brzezinski. Since its initial publication, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order has become a classic work of international relations and one of the most influential books ever written about foreign affairs. An insightful and powerful analysis of the forces driving global politics, it is as indispensable to our understanding of American foreign policy today as the day it was published. As former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski says in his new foreword to the book, it “has earned a place on the shelf of only about a dozen or so truly enduring works that provide the quintessential insights necessary for a broad understanding of world affairs in our time.”

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  …discussing samuel huntington's accurate prediction about civilizations competing rather than converging

  “Samuel Huntington wrote a book called The Clash of Civilizations in the mid-90s that was sort of the opposite of, you know, End of History was celebrated. Clash of Civilizations was sort of reviled. But what Huntington said is that what these other civilizations want around the world is not westernization, they want modernization.”

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