In my endeavour to understand the world we are living in, I re-read recently Samuel Huntington’s book “The Clash of Civilizations.” When I first read it, late in the 1990s, the Berlin Wall had fallen and the one-mighty Soviet Union had been dissolved. It was the End of the Cold War, or according to Francis Fukuyama, the End of History, where humanity was moving towards a state of idealised harmony through the mechanisms of liberal democracy. There was an optimistic view of the world, or perhaps, there was an optimistic view of the world in the Western world. Yet, somehow, I fretted that Huntington’s world view could become “a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

Is it still relevant?

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