Samuel Huntington - Clash of Civilizations

About this Episode

Huntington argues that culture and cultural idenities will shape the post-Cold War world. The most important distinctions among peoples are not ideological, political, or economic. They are cultural. The dominant division is between the West and "the rest." The dangerous clashes of the future are likely to arise from the interaction of Western arrogance, Islamic intolerance, and Sinic (i.e., Chinese) assertiveness.