At a time when the headlines are dominated by civil war in Syria, anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe, and conflict in the South China Sea, people are inevitably reminded of Samuel Huntington’s „Clash of Civilizations” thesis. He was partly wrong – there is no Islamic economic region or Confucian economic region. But he was also partly right – about the rise of economic regions. And the real clashes are occurring within these civilizations: between rich and poor, between the educat-ed and the uneducated, and between the employed and the unemployed. In places like Syria those clashes are violent. In places like the United States and the European Union they are political. But they are clashes all the same.
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