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The War of Civilizations Will Not Take Place. Coexistence and Violence in the Twenty-First Century

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LIOGIER Raphaël, « The War of Civilizations Will Not Take Place. Coexistence and Violence in the Twenty-First Century », CNRS Éditions, janvier 2016, 240 p.

Based on a review by Sébastien Abis

To counter acquiescence in the widespread notion of a putative ‘clash of civilizations’, French philosopher and sociologist Raphaël Liogier has, in his latest book, provided a sound, impressively argued analysis that is diametrically opposed to the arguments of Samuel Huntington. According to Liogier-and this is a thread running through his work-‘we have, conversely, for centuries been seeing the roll-out of a global civilization.’

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