Was Huntington wrong?
When Samuel P Huntington in the year 1996 proposed the idea of ‘clash of civilisations’, it, though being controversial, became immensely popular in political and academic circles. He presented the idea that conflicts in post-Cold War world order would be on the basis of civilisational differences. Huntington defined civilisation as a cultural entity having three attributes: objective, subjective and dynamic. By objective he meant attributes like common language, religion, customs or history. Subjective attributes referred to self-identification of the group according to their choice. And the dynamic attribute is the civilisations’ tendency to rise, fall, merge, or vanish.
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Source: Pakistan Today
