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Samuel P. Huntington is considered one of the most outstanding interpreters of International Relations of our times. Huntington is very well known by his article “The Clash of Civilizations” written in the summer of 1993. In this article he states the idea that the world is split in different civilizations, these different civilizations will be the basic reason for conflicts in the future. Afterwards, the rest of the article is based on different examples of history that prove his claims. One can summarize the article with one of his initial phrases: “The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural” and “The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics”. Huntington correctly defined a civilization as a: “a cultural entity”, I would like to add to that definition, the definition made by Philip Atkinson: “is the tangible expression of a communal understanding”. Even though, Huntington is right about the existence of different civilizations around the world. I believe that he completely forgets that each nation-state around the world is different in itself! The world is not only split by civilizations, its also split by different countries. However, Huntin