The New New World Order To most of the world, the fall of the
Berlin Wall in 1989 symbolized freedom, democracy, the end of
tyranny. To a small band of cognoscenti in Washington, New York,
and a few university towns, the fall of the Berlin Wall also
symbolized unprecedented professional opportunity. From the
moment it happened, the competition was on: Who would be the
first to describe the new era? George Kennan had been the first
analyst to describe what was to become the Cold War and the
first to use the word "containment," in a famous article, "The
Sources of Soviet Conduct,"published in 1947 in Foreign Affairs
magazine. Who would name the new paradigm? There were many
contributions to this debate, but two became famous. One was
Francis Fukuyama's article on "The End of History," published in
the National Interest in 1989. The other was Samuel Huntington's
"The Clash of Civilizations?" published in Foreign Affairs in
1993. (For those who don't remember, Fukuyama argued—or was
caricatured as arguing—that li