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November 28, 2001
The Iranian

When Samuel Huntington first introduced his theory on the "Clash of Civilizations" in Foreign Policy (summer 1993), it was immediately translated into Persian and widely discussed among Iranian intellectuals. Today, following the September 11 attacks, Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations: Remaking of World Order (1997, Touchstone / Simon & Schuster) has become an international bestseller. Excerpt: * Pages 56-68

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Samuel P. Huntington is the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University, where he is also the director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and the chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. He was the director of security planning for the U.S. National Security Council in the Carter Administration, the founder and coeditor of Foreign Policy, and the president of the American Political Science Association. Huntington lives in Boston, Massachusetts. To purchase The Clash of Civilizations: Remaking of World Order, go to Amazon.com.

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