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Abstract

The Cairo Conference on Population and Development and the Huntington's paradigm. When defining the clash of civilizations as the new paradigm for internacional relations in the post-Cold War world, Samuel Huntington did not take into consideration another possibility of conflict and alliances of States, which became apparent at the Cairo Conference on Population and Development in 1994, based on divergences between religious and secular options. This article describes the Cairo Conference, with its innovative approach to the theme of population, showing that, while on that occasion a new division of the world into two antagonistic mega-blocks was avoided, tension between those two ideological forces goes on.