In the summer of 1993, Foreign Affairs published ?Clash of Civilizations?? by Samuel P. Huntington. Few thinkers have provoked such criticism as Huntington did twenty years ago. Nevertheless, the critics did not succeed in dismissing his article as irrelevant. In the post Nine Eleven world, where conflicts largely take place between various ethnical and cultural entities, it is hard to not admit that Huntington was at least partially right.

?Clash of Civilizations?? launched the theory of a new world order after the Cold War where cultural and religious identities would be the primary source of conflict. Huntington believed that future wars would mainly take place between the Western, Muslim and Confucian civilizations.

Welcome to the conference ?Twenty years after Clash of Civilizations: Are we living in Huntington?s world order??

Key note speaker is James Kirchick. Other speakers are Oda Fiskum, Magnus Norell and Eli Göndör. The conference will be moderated by Thomas Gür.

Questions that will be adressed during the conference: The antagonism between the West and the Muslim world ? are we experiencing a clash of civilizations? More than two decades after the Cold War ? where is authoritarian Russia heading? Soft power ? how China challenges the rest of the world by cultural impact.

The conference will be in English.