Yet if Huntington’s “Clash” failed to deliver what he promised, it succeeded at something much more important. And his hopes for reinvigorating Western culture and a common Western civilizational consciousness have only grown more visibly quixotic, as the fault lines within Western culture have become ever harder to ignore. Despite its numerous impressive predictions, his thesis offers little concrete guidance beyond classic realist policy prescriptions. After 25 years, it is fair to say that Huntington failed at this. With his Clash of Civilizations thesis, Samuel Huntington intended to offer policymakers a “simplified map of reality,” an intellectual framework into which they could fit all the data that would otherwise accumulate on their desks in unsorted heaps. Other contributors include Francis Fukuyama and Seth Cropsey & Harry Halem. The second in a series of three essays celebrating the 25 th anniversary of the publication of Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations.
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