Samuel Huntington envisioned enduring hostility between Islam and the West. But that thesis hasn’t come to pass — and it overlooks the identity crisis that will truly define this century. Thirty years ...

In 1993 the Harvard political scientist Samuel P. Huntington wrote an article in Foreign Affairs titled “The Clash of Civilizations?” In that article -- and subsequent book -- Huntington argued that ...

The controversy over the Ground Zero mosque has breathed new life into Samuel P. Huntington’s “Clash of Civilizations” thesis. In the early 1990s, Huntington argued that: The essential building block ...

Samuel Huntington got Ukraine wrong. That's what a casual reader of "The Clash of Civilizations?" -- published in Foreign Affairs 30 years ago this summer -- might think. Huntington was at the peak of ...

Samuel Huntington got Ukraine wrong. That’s what a casual reader of “The Clash of Civilizations?” — published in Foreign Affairs 30 years ago this summer — might think. Huntington was at the peak of ...

Samuel Huntington got Ukraine wrong. That’s what a casual reader of “The Clash of Civilizations?” — published in Foreign Affairs 30 years ago this summer — might think. Huntington was at the peak of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The “Kennan Sweepstakes,” they called it in the early 1990s. Decades earlier, the diplomat George Kennan had won lasting renown ...

The 1990s produced two big theories about the shape of the post-Cold War world. The first, Francis Fukuyama's "end of history" thesis, claimed that liberal democracy had come out on top in an age-old ...

In April, the American public received two assessments of what went wrong with the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan twenty months earlier. The White House blamed the previous administration for the ...