SMOKERS’ CORNER: THE RISE OF CIVILISATIONAL STATES

Samuel Huntington is making a comeback. In his 1996 book The Clash of Civilisations, the American political scientist deeply divided academic opinion by arguing that culture, rather than ideology, would drive post-Cold War conflicts. In 2019, the British political theorist Christopher Coker wrote that the contemporary concept of the ‘civilisational state’ serves as a real-world evidence of Huntington’s core thesis. According to Coker, culture, rather than ideology, has become the primary curr...

By none@none.com (Nadeem F. Paracha)