Huntington's Shift to the Declinist Camp: Conservative Declinism and the 'Historical Function' of the Clash of Civilizations Samuel Huntington, a severe critic of decline theory and an adamant revivalist, shifted radically to the declinist camp with the end of the Cold War, his p... Aysha,Em...
Emphasizing the rise ofEast AsiaandIslam, he argued in the controversialThe Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order(1996) that conflict between several large world civilizations was replacing conflict between states orideologiesas the dominant cleavage in international relations. Although ...