Abstract
The clash of Civilisation' by S. Huntington, was first, an article of seventeen pages, published in the journal 'Foreign Affairs', which initiated a controversy among specialists . Even though Huntington had got a lot of flak, he developed this theory in his book bearing the same title, 'The Clash of Civilisation', a phrase that has now become a buzz word. S. Huntington is looking for new guidelines to understand the post Cold War world. In modern days, ideology is not an accurate explanation of global divisions anymore, but of civilisation or culture,as he puts it. It has to be mentioned that this theory was developed in a context where intellectuals were looking for a New World Order, after the fall of the USSR, which disappointed the experts.
