Civilizations and World Order contributes to the literature on cross-cultural international relations and geopolitics in the post–Cold War era. It raises interesting and timely questions on the role of various civilizations in the current and future world order, and challenges the reader to leave the mono-civilizational EuroWestcentric view and think in terms of a multicivilizational perspective. The authors of the book argue that, in the aftermath of the Cold War, a unipolar world system has emerged, and the Western powers, convinced of their civilizational superiority, embraced a hegemonic approach to establishing a new world order by imposing the Western civilization onto other civilizations. They further assert that, in the absence of a balance of power, certain political camps were quick to declare a civilizational victory for the West (Fukuyama 1992) or else they embarked on finding new enemies to replace the Soviet Union (Huntington 1993). They suggest that these approaches cannot sustain a peaceful world order without paying due respect to different civilizations, and the way forward is a multicultural world system in which each civilization participates equally.