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Clash within civilisations

The world has changed in a manner nobody had imagined. Definitely not those who imagined that people need to be divided by religion, culture, civilisational differences to go to war with each other

Illustration: Binay Sinha
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Illustration: Binay Sinha

Shekhar Gupta
Many new thoughts emerged in the global political sciences and strategic communities after the Cold War ended. Among the most prominent was Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations in 1993, which came in response to, or probably provoked by his brilliant pupil Francis Fukuyama’s End of History (and The Last Man), published a year earlier.

It would be hasty to say both lie in the rubble of Bucha, Mariupol, and Kharkiv yet. But enough is happening to reopen most post-Cold War debates and theories.

Here’s what we have. Slav fighting Slav so it’s within the same white race, the Christian Orthodox (listed by
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