New York Times
"A benchmark for informed speculations on those always fascinating questions: Just where are we in history? What hidden hand is controlling our destiny?...A searching reflection of our global state." - Richard BernsteinWall Street Journal
"Dazzling in its scope and grasp of the intricacies of contemporary global politics." - Francis Fukuyama Baltimore Sun
"The most catalytic work of its sort since 'The End of History'." New York Times Book Review
"His ruling assumptions are profoundly conservative and static. His civilizations are unified, self-contained compartments, not the promiscuously interacting, heterogeneous and constantly changing amoebas we know them to be." - Michael Ignatieff 12/01/1996 Washington Post Book World
"The book is studded with insights, flashes of raw brilliance, great learning, and, in particular, an ability to see the familiar in a new and provocative way. Ye in the end, it doesn't convince. One might venture to think there will be few books published this year which are, at one and the same time, so stimulating and so maddening." - Michael Elliot 12/01/1996 Ad
'Sam Huntington, one of the West's most eminent political scientists, presents a challenging framework for understanding the realities of global politics in the next century." - Henry A. Kissinger ad
"An intellectual tour de force: bold, imaginative, and provocative." - Zbigniew Brzezinski New York Review of Books
"...[A] powerful and disturbing book." - William H. McNeill 01/09/1997 Spectator
"This is one of those rare books from academe which will shape the times as well as reflect them." - Timothy Mo 04/12/1997 | 
