Huntington’s clash-of-civilizations thesis came to frame the entire War on Terror.
Evidence
The new War on Terror discourse was intellectually emaciated and obsolete, but as revitalized and repackaged by the likes of Samuel P. Huntington, it provided an undeniably powerful paradigm and potent language for a world in which the images of falling towers and bearded terrorists were seared deep in the imagination. Huntington’s “clash of civilizations,” to no surprise, “utterly stormed Washington” and curated the framing of the War on Terror. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 274
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- Huntington’s clash of civilizations framing captured the War on Terror. (similarity 0.98)
- Huntington’s clash-of-civilizations thesis gave the terror war a crusade framing (similarity 0.92)
- Huntington’s framework supplied the lexicon including ‘war on terror’ to policymakers. (similarity 0.90)
- Huntington premised the Clash of Civilizations thesis a decade before its wartime use (similarity 0.88)
- Post-Cold War conflict was framed by Huntington as civilizational cultural clash (similarity 0.88)
- Huntington’s othering logic scripted the War on Terror. (similarity 0.88)
- Huntington’s clash thesis named all of Islam, not just fundamentalism, as the West’s problem (similarity 0.85)
- Huntington repackaged Orientalist binaries into a new lexicon of civilizational clash. (similarity 0.85)
- Bush’s war declaration framed the enemy as Islamic and civilizational. (similarity 0.84)
- Terrorism is not uniquely Islamic but often stems from state negligence and empire. (similarity 0.84)
- Huntington declared all of Islam, not just fundamentalism, the West’s existential threat. (similarity 0.84)
- Huntington popularized a clash-of-civilizations thesis built on Lewis’s earlier Orientalist work. (similarity 0.84)
- Huntington’s clash-of-civilisations thesis lacks empirical evidence (similarity 0.84)
- The War on Terror deliberately deepens civilizational divides rather than repairing them (similarity 0.84)
- War on Terror homogenized Muslims the way earlier eras homogenized Native Americans and Africans (similarity 0.84)
Broader Connections
- The War on Terror was ideologically framed as a civilizational clash
#corroborates(0.90) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 234