The “Clash of Civilizations” thesis was first proposed by American political scientist Samuel Huntington in a 1992 lecture at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC. In response to his former student Francis Fukuyama’s much-acclaimed book of the same year, The End of History and the Last Man, which argued that the whole world was converging on America’s model of democracy, Huntington expanded his thesis in a 1996 book The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order.

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