West-versus-rest political conflict is an intra-Western ideological dispute

Evidence

Halliday continues his dismissal of “Islam” as an analytical category when he goes on to note that “political argument about the ‘West’ versus ‘the rest’ turns out, on closer examination, to be a conflict between two different interpretations and variants of the Western political tradition itself” (Halliday, 1996:5). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3515

Categorization

• QUESTION: This inverts the civilizational-clash framing of Samuel Huntington but arguably flattens non-Western agency — worth checking against the author’s framing and counter-arguments.
• XREF: Resonates with Edward Said’s Orientalism critique and with postcolonial rejections of Eurocentric modernization theory. — connects to: The West’s bordered independence fails because its inside now contains the enemy