Summary
An examination of the political and military conflicts that have erupted around the globe since the collapse of Communism in 1989, written by the well-known scholar and director of the Institute for Strategic Studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Huntington envisions a future in which world politics is driven not by ideologies or economics, but by ethnicity, religion, and other cultural forces.
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"A benchmark for informed speculations on those always fascinating questions: Just where are we in history? What hidden hand is controlling our destiny?...A searching reflection of our global state." -- Richard Bernstein
-- New York Times
"Dazzling in its scope and grasp of the intricacies of contemporary global politics." -- Francis Fukuyama
-- Wall Street Journal
"The most catalytic work of its sort since 'The End of History'."
-- Baltimore Sun
"His ruling assumptions are profoundly conservative and static. His civilizations are unified, self-contained compartments, not the promiscuously interacting, heterogeneous and constantly changing amoebas we know them to be." -- Michael Ignatieff
-- New York Times Book Review
"The book is studded with insights, flashes of raw brilliance, great learning, and, in particular, an ability to see the familiar in a new and provocative way. Ye in the end, it doesn't convince. One might venture to think there will be few books published this year which are, at one and the same time, so stimulating and so maddening." -- Michael Elliot
-- Washington Post Book World
'Sam Huntington, one of the West's most eminent political scientists, presents a challenging framework for understanding the realities of global politics in the next century." -- Henry A. Kissinger
"An intellectual tour de force: bold, imaginative, and provocative." -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
"...[A] powerful and disturbing book." -- William H. McNeill
-- New York Review of Books
"This is one of those rare books from academe which will shape the times as well as reflect them." -- Timothy Mo
-- Spectator
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published date: 1996
Size: 6.5 x 10 inches
Weight: 1.4 pounds
Pages: 367
Publisher's Notes
Predicting greater future conflicts between Western and non-Western cultures, a political study argues for greater understanding of non-Western civilizations and offers strategies for maximizing Western influence. 30,000 first printing. Tour.
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