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I just finished reading Huntington's "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order", and I must say - for a book put out in the mid 90's, it's still very relevant. The only nit I have to pick with Huntington is that he doesn't fully take demographics into account: in talking about Islamic civilization, he notes that the rising populations there account for a large part of the renewed energy - but I think he should have paid more attention to China's demographics before painting such a rosy path for them. I could be wrong, but I suspect that the "one child policy" is going to come back to bite them in a number of ways.
Other than that though, I enjoyed the book quite a bit, and I'd recommend it to anyone.