Astute, provocative, and prophetic, as it turned out, Samuel Huntington's book analyzes global politics in an exceptional way and explains that civilizations have replaced ideologies as the decisive force in geopolitical matters. "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order," first published after the collapse of the Soviet Union and predicted the reorganization of countries around the world according to cultural spheres of influence or "civilizations," is now a classic work of international relations.