Half of wars between different-religion states were Muslim-Christian conflicts

Evidence

According to one count, some ninety-two acquisitions of Muslim territory by non-Muslim governments occurred between 1757 and 1919. By 1995, sixty-nine of these territories were once again under Muslim rule, and about forty-five independent states had overwhelmingly Muslim populations. The violent nature of these shifting relationships is reflected in the fact that 50 percent of wars involving pairs of states of different religions between 1820 and 1929 were wars between Muslims and Christians. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 563

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Milgrom’s and other institutional accounts of inter-community conflict and to the broader ‘clash’ thesis central to this book.