Considered one of the most important, influential, and contested books to emerge post-1989, in which Huntington (a political scientist at Harvard and foreign policy aide to Bill Clinton) argues that in the wake of the end of the bipolar world, we will not enjoy global peace but will rather see a rise in violent conflict between states because of cultural and religious dogma-in other words clashing ‘civilizations’ will drive conflict, not economics or political ideologies as during the Cold War.