... the cold war era. One of these is Samuel Huntington's clash of civilizations thesis expounded in his well-known book clash of civilizations (1993). According to Huntington the world may be seen as being composed of civilizations that overlay nation states. He identifies several of these civilizations including the western-Christian, eastern-Christian, Islamic, Hindu and others. In the case of nation states like Germany and France belonging to the same civilization, there is little likelihood of conflict. On the other hand, when two or more civilizations meet on the ground, as in former Yugoslavia, it can give rise to conflict. The boundary where two or more civilizations meet is to be seen as a 'civilization fault line.' Yugoslavia furnishes a particularly good example as it is the meeting ground of three civilizations (as conceived by Huntington); western (Croatia), eastern (Serbia) and Islamic (Bosnia Herzegovina). This seemed to furnish a particularly elegant ...

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