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This shift echoes the predictions made by Harvard scholar Samuel Huntington, who theorized that the post-Cold War world was transitioning from ideological politics—centered on the rivalry between American democracy and Soviet communism—to a politics rooted in nation, culture, tradition, and civilization. Huntington’s "Clash of Civilizations" thesis posited that future world order would be based more on identity and cultural bonds than on abstract ideology.