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Clash of Cultures

Globalization & the March of Western Values

William Pfaff

In the riots that swept Islamic society last winter, reaction to the publication of cartoons insulting the Prophet Mohammed, the world glimpsed evidence of a clash between cultures—but not in the sense of the “clash of civilizations” that Samuel Huntington foresaw in his influential 1993 Foreign Affairs article and in the book that followed. Huntington’s “clash of civ (...)


 

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