Huntington’s clash-of-civilisations thesis lacks empirical evidence

Evidence

Despite his highly subjective standpoint, Huntington’s original thesis largely relied on anecdotal evidence and despite seepage of his ideas into various different geo-political and intellectual spaces contemporarily, especially the neo-con political movement in the US, it might be suggested that there remains little empirical evidence to back up his claims. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 249

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the contested-definition module: the clash thesis is one strand the Runnymede framework grew partly in response to. — connects to: Huntington repackaged Orientalist binaries into a new lexicon of civilizational clash. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 229; Huntington defines non-Western peoples in religious rather than national terms — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 226; The clash of civilizations narrative is a constructed frame, not a given fact
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 249

Related

• The clash of civilizations theory rearticulated the Orientalist binary of Islam versus the West. (similarity 0.84)
• Huntington repackaged Orientalist binaries into a new lexicon of civilizational clash. (similarity 0.83)
• The clash of civilizations thesis persists because it justifies advancing Western interests. (similarity 0.83)
• Huntington’s clash-of-civilizations thesis came to frame the entire War on Terror. (similarity 0.82)
• Huntington declared all of Islam, not just fundamentalism, the West’s existential threat. (similarity 0.82)
• The clash of civilizations thesis asserts Western values are alien to Islamic societies. (similarity 0.82)
• Huntington defines non-Western peoples in religious rather than national terms (similarity 0.82)
• Huntington’s clash theory targeted all 1.7 billion Muslims, not just extremists. (similarity 0.81)
• The clash of civilizations narrative is a constructed frame, not a given fact (similarity 0.81)
• Huntington attributes complex world conflicts to unchanging civilizational essences (similarity 0.81)
• Huntington asserts Islam is inherently prone to violence and bloodshed (similarity 0.80)
• Huntington deemed Islam itself, not fundamentalism, the underlying problem (similarity 0.80)
• Huntington’s framework supplied the lexicon including ‘war on terror’ to policymakers. (similarity 0.80)
• Huntington popularized a clash-of-civilizations thesis built on Lewis’s earlier Orientalist work. (similarity 0.80)
• A discredited academic thesis can still mainstream state Islamophobia. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The clash of civilizations narrative is a constructed frame, not a given fact #corroborates (0.90)
• Huntington repackaged Orientalist binaries into a new lexicon of civilizational clash. #expands (0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 229
• Huntington defines non-Western peoples in religious rather than national terms #expands (0.80) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 226