The clash-of-civilizations thesis won over its own skeptical early readers

Evidence

I have to confess that I was skeptical of his grand thesis when it was first previewed as an article in the July 1993 issue of Foreign Affairs. Like some others, I was immensely impressed by the article’s ambitious scope but also perplexed by what I perceived to be its implied imposition of a historically comprehensive and intellectually sweeping framework on the complex dynamics of contemporary nationalistic, religious, and social conflicts within a world that is now uniquely interactive. But as a consequence of my participation in subsequent discussions between Sam and some of his critics, and especially after reading this book on its publication, my reservations faded. I came to realize that his grand thesis and overarching synthesis provided insights vital not only for understanding contemporary world affairs but also for intelligently shaping them. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 13

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The clash of civilizations narrative is a constructed frame, not a given fact; The End of History and Clash of Civilizations are complementary, not contradictory — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 77
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The clash of civilizations narrative is a constructed frame, not a given fact; The End of History and Clash of Civilizations are complementary, not contradictory — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 77

Broader Connections

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