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In his recent article on "The Clash of Civilizations" (Foreign Affairs 77:3), Huntington attempts to predict the scenario of the New World Order that will have to be dealt with by the West. The Supremacy of Western Civilization From the beginning, Huntington attempts to convince the reader that the West represents a homogeneous culture. But with communism's collapse in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, it became obvious that the goal of total political unity among member countries was not possible in the absence of a common enemy. Some western scholars, among them Huntington, played a major role for the West by setting the world's stage so that it could conduct its foreign policy. Thus the West has justified its Bosnian policy by claiming that the conflict is a civil war among the ethnic groups of the former Yugoslavia and that no outside force should intervene. He offers strategies for the West on how to deal with the rest of the world, especially those chosen by Huntington and others to assume the old Soviet position and become the new enemy. Huntington's strategies do not call on the West to understand, compromise, and accommodate others, but to confront, conquer, and control nonwestern civilizations, especially the Muslim world. To ensure western supremacy and nonwestem division, Huntington recommends that the West "exploit differences and conflicts among Confucian and Islamic states.