Karl Deutsch compared the West to nine civilizations across twenty-one factors

Evidence

Karl W. Deutsch has produced a comprehensive, succinct, and highly suggestive comparison of the West and nine other civilizations in terms of twenty-one geographical, cultural, economic, technological, social, and political factors, emphasizing the extent to which the West differs from the others. See Karl W. Deutsch, “On Nationalism, World Regions, and the Nature of the West,” in Per Torsvik, ed. Mobilization, Center Periphery Structures, and Nation-building: A Volume in Commemoration of Stein Rokkan (Bergen: Universitetsforlaget, 1981), pp. 51–93. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 981

Categorization

• XREF: Useful methodological pointer for anyone building comparative civilizational frameworks — connects to the book’s own typological project.