ABSTRACT
When it was first speculatively advanced in a 1993 article in Foreign Affairs, Huntington’s ‘clash of civilizations’ thesis was roundly and at times roughly criticized by Western scholars (Foreign Affairs 1993; ASAA Review 1994). Not only was his key argument, that future conflict would acquire a cultural dimension and be conducted between different civilizations, derided as advancing a totally fanciful model of international relations, but also his core prediction, that as historically colliding civilizations the West and a resurgent Islam were poised to launch this new kind of global war, was condemned as intrinsically flawed.
