In 1993 the Harvard political scientist Samuel P. Huntington wrote an article in Foreign Affairs titled “The Clash of Civilizations?” In that article -- and subsequent book -- Huntington argued that ...

The controversy over the Ground Zero mosque has breathed new life into Samuel P. Huntington’s “Clash of Civilizations” thesis. In the early 1990s, Huntington argued that: The essential building block ...

Samuel Huntington envisioned enduring hostility between Islam and the West. But that thesis hasn’t come to pass — and it overlooks the identity crisis that will truly define this century. Thirty years ...

Kiron Skinner, the Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department, ignited a controversy last week when she analogized Sino-U.S. competition to a clash of civilizations. There has been a ...

The 1990s produced two big theories about the shape of the post-Cold War world. The first, Francis Fukuyama's "end of history" thesis, claimed that liberal democracy had come out on top in an age-old ...

CAIRO, Egypt - Western political leaders, along with most of the media, have repeatedly emphasized that the war on terrorism is "not about Islam." They reject the "clash of civilizations" thesis put ...

Most of the way through the article that I promoted last week, Stephen Walt, having explained all the ways in which Trump is not behaving rationally, considers the possibility of a rational strategy ...

In April, the American public received two assessments of what went wrong with the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan twenty months earlier. The White House blamed the previous administration for the ...