Post-Cold War conflict was framed by Huntington as civilizational cultural clash

Evidence

Future global politics and wars will not be between ideologically opposing super-powers as in the Cold War era but rather between civilizations holding diametrically opposed cultural values, Huntington argues. In this scheme, Islam represents the ultimate threat to Western civilization for, according to Huntington, “Islam has bloody borders” (Huntington, 1993, p. — Sarah Bracke and Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar, “They Love Death as We Love Life”, 174

Categorization

• XREF: Directly echoes The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Hamid), whose protagonist watches the world get re-sorted into civilizational blocs after 9/11. — connects to: Lewis and Huntington argued Islam itself, not fundamentalism, underlies the West’s problem — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 315; Huntington attributes complex world conflicts to unchanging civilizational essences — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 208; Huntington premised the Clash of Civilizations thesis a decade before its wartime use — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 229 (+11 more)
• SEED: Angle: how an academic thesis with a question mark became a policy frame with none — the punctuation history of the ‘clash of civilizations’.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Sarah Bracke and Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar, “They Love Death as We Love Life”: The…, 174

Broader Connections

• Huntington attributes complex world conflicts to unchanging civilizational essences #expands (0.90) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 208
• Huntington’s clash-of-civilizations thesis gave the terror war a crusade framing #expands (0.90) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 59
• Huntington explained vast conflicts from essentialized, unchanging cultural differences. #corroborates (0.90)
• Huntington’s othering logic scripted the War on Terror. #expands (0.90)
• Huntington premised the Clash of Civilizations thesis a decade before its wartime use #expands (0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 229
• Culture talk emerged post-Cold War as a politicized explanation for global conflict. #expands (0.85) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 76
• Post-Cold War global conflict centers on the West versus challenger civilizations #expands (0.85) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 654
• Clash of civilizations rhetoric about Islam predates Huntington by seventy years #qualifies (0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 700
• Huntington repackaged Orientalist binaries into a new lexicon of civilizational clash. #expands (0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 229
• Post-Cold War events largely followed predictions derived from civilizational identity #corroborates (0.80) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 80
• Bernard Lewis coined the phrase ‘clash of civilizations’, which Huntington popularized #qualifies (0.80) — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 470
• A diagnosis of post-Cold War civilizational conflict resonated across all continents. #expands (0.75)
• Post-Cold War global conflict is legitimized by racial, cultural, and religious prejudice #expands (0.75) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 336