![]() If there was a war between two other countries, the key question was which ones are allied with the east, which ones are allied with the west. Everything was all about east versus west capitalism versus communism America versus Russia. During this time, the cold war was the main lens that people used to understand world politics. ![]() And just staring each other down with itchy fingers on the nuclear trigger. These two superpowers spent 40 years fighting proxy wars in third world countries, preparing for war with each other. And the cold war was basically this super tense rivalry between the USA and the us Sr starting shortly after world war II. He followed this up with a full length book a couple of years later of the same title, the key context of this article, because it was the early nineties is the end of the cold war. The article in question is Samuel J Huntington's clash of civilizations. And it's still the most assigned article in university political science courses. Today, I'm going to be talking about a really famous political science article that came out back in 1993, but which was such a weird hit that you still hear about it today in newspapers. And becomes America's intellectual darling. Today, a former advisor to the apartheid security forces predict something like a worldwide race war. We do don’t have time to go through these all carefully but still thought that it would be more helpful than having no transcript at all. Note: this is transcribed using an online transcription service so it’s probably going to have a lot of errors.
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