Paul May is the author of a remarkable work, “Philosophies of multiculturalism” (Presses de Sciences Po, 2016).
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In several respects, the current conflict in Ukraine seems to lend credence to the thesis of American political scientist Samuel Huntington, author of the famous book
The Clash of Civilizations
, published in 1997 in French.
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For most analysts of the 1990s, the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union consecrated the victory of liberal democracy, a model that found itself without credible political alternatives.
While the 20th century had been the scene of violent confrontations between rival political models, a gradual consensus seemed to emerge around democratic and liberal principles, which were now contested only by minimal fringes of the electorate.
The successive waves of democratization in the 1980s and 1990s in countries until then…
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