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In the emerging era, clashes of civilizations are the greatest threat to world peace, and an international order based on civilizations is the surest safeguard against world war.

— Samuel P. Huntington The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)

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Undoubtedly many more people in the world are concerned with sports than with human rights.

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In the post-Cold War world, for the first time in history, global politics has become multipolar and multicivilizational.

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The most important groupings of states are no longer the three blocs of the Cold War but rather the world’s seven or eight major civilizations.

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)

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Those who do not recognize fundamental divides, however, are doomed to be frustrated by them.

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