The ‘Clash of Civilizations’ hypothesis suggested that global politics would revert to inter-civilizational (inter-religious) conflict with the end Cold War. Conceptual and empirical refutations followed, but idea pre-Cold War inter-polity interaction was generally characterized by such not addressed. We consider this a possible historical libel. First, we briefly review position major faith tr...

many academics, worldwide have considered khatami’s dialogue of civilizations as a pow-erful rhetoric and antithesis of the so-called ‘clash of civilization’ theory. this article, how-ever, tries to show the originality and depth of khatami’s vision, framed against the back-ground of ‘the end of history’ and clash of civilization’ theories, political frames used by po-litical actors in the post...