ABSTRACT
Samuel P. Huntington created a grand theory of international conflict that would explain the post-Cold War world to his fellow Americans. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order brought him worldwide attention and a reputation as a controversial voice in the field of international relations at the close of the twentieth century. Clash was an ambitious attempt to explain how world politics would be rewritten along cultural lines rather than continuing to adhere to the ideological rules that had dominated before the end of the Cold War. Huntington was making clear to the reader his assumption that the West, especially America, comprised the most important group of states in world politics. That is why his analysis was largely written in terms of the “West and the rest.” Huntington came in for significant criticism from postcolonial theorists, whose work seeks to expose the legacies of imperialism.
