Communism’s collapse left West and Islam as mutual perceived threats

Evidence

If simplistic arguments and theses can be in any way useful, what was occurring at the global level was, as Huntington put it, that both the West and Islam were being forced to shift their global perception and relationship: ‘the collapse of communism removed a common enemy of the West and Islam and left each the perceived threat of each other’. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 246

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘common enemy removed’ mechanism parallels political theories of out-group cohesion and the manufacture of new enemies after Soviet collapse. — connects to: The Cold War’s end left Islam and the West mutually perceived threats — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 246; Islamic challenge forged the collective identity of ‘the West’; 1989 marked the first time Muslims threatened the West from within and without — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 234 (+8 more)

Related

• The Cold War’s end left Islam and the West mutually perceived threats (similarity 0.91)
• Islam replaced communism as the West’s designated global enemy threat (similarity 0.90)
• The Cold War’s end positioned Islam as communism’s replacement global threat (similarity 0.87)
• The Islamic-terror enemy replaced the Soviet Union as an archnemesis. (similarity 0.86)
• Islamic challenge forged the collective identity of ‘the West’ (similarity 0.85)
• 1989 marked the first time Muslims threatened the West from within and without (similarity 0.85)
• The Muslim terrorist replaced the Soviet communist as the West’s public enemy number one (similarity 0.84)
• Neocons needed Islam as a unifying substitute for the USSR enemy (similarity 0.83)
• Islam served neocons as a substitute Cold War enemy when the USSR collapsed (similarity 0.82)
• Neocons replaced the Soviet enemy with an Islamic civilizational threat (similarity 0.82)
• Western publics and leaders perceived Islam as the post-Cold War threat (similarity 0.82)
• Liberal imperialists and neocons both frame Islamism as the new totalitarianism requiring Western expungement (similarity 0.81)
• Huntington deemed Islam itself, not fundamentalism, the underlying problem (similarity 0.80)
• Soviet defeat in 1989 legitimized and globalized the Islamist militant movement (similarity 0.80)
• Neoconservatives campaigned to replace the Soviet enemy with Islamism (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• The Cold War’s end left Islam and the West mutually perceived threats #corroborates (1.00) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 246
• Islamic challenge forged the collective identity of ‘the West’ #expands (0.80)
• The Muslim terrorist replaced the Soviet communist as the West’s public enemy number one #expands (0.80) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 259
• 1989 marked the first time Muslims threatened the West from within and without #expands (0.75) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 234
• Soviet defeat in 1989 legitimized and globalized the Islamist militant movement #expands (0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 257