Abstract
Sixteen years ago Gorbatchev announced on television that he resigned as the President of the USSR, the Soviet flag was lowered over the Kremlin and on December 26th 1991, the Supreme Soviet Court recognized the extinction of the Soviet Union: the USSR was no more. After more than fifty years of an ideological conflict between the East and the West, after a harsh struggle between communism and liberalism, the post Cold War world was searching for a new prism to view international relations. The first influential answer was given by Francis Fukuyama in his book, The End of History and the Last Man, published in 1992. According to him, liberal democracy is a universally acceptable concept which has finally overcome all other ideologies and that the world is now going to embrace it. He so assesses the end of history seen as a series of confrontations between ideologies. Two years later as a reaction to this thesis, the Harvard political scientist, Samuel Phillips Huntington, published in Foreign Affairs the article The Clash Of Civilizations adapted into a book The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order in 1996.
