Clash of civilizations or calculation of interest?
Only 39 years old, the Indonesian scholar Anies Baswedan's thoughts have been considered so influential that Foreign Policy magazine has rated this Rector of Paramadina University 60th on a list of the world's top 100 intellectuals.
Critical of the dominance of a cultural approach to Muslim-Western conflicts, he believes conflict is not triggered by cult…
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