#44: The Clash of Civilizations by Samuel Huntington

For this week's episode Amogh and Malek return to discuss Samuel P. Huntington's 1993 essay The Clash of Civilizations? - a follow-up to our recent Fukuyama episode, as well as Trump's threat to Iran that "a whole civilization will die tonight."We revisit the aftermath of the Cold War, and the nostalgia for a history guided by ideology. We talk about the revisionism of mobilizing "the West" in opposition to an imagined coherent Islamic world. Has civilizational thinking increased in the last 30 years, and if so, where, why, and how?READINGS:--"The Clash of Civilizations?" - Samuel P. Huntington, 1993: https://archive.is/3ZmOF--"Samuel Huntington Is Getting His Revenge" - Nils Gilman, 2025: https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/21/samuel-huntington-fukuyama-clash-of-civilizations/--"In Search of New Enemies" - Stephen Holmes, 1997: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v19/n08/stephen-holmes/in-search-of-new-enemiesSamuel P. Huntington (1927-2008) was the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University, where he was also the director of the John M. Olin Institute for Stategic Studies and the chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. He was the director of security planning for the National Security Council in the Carter administration, the founder and coeditor of Foreign Policy, and the president of the American Political Science Association.