Title: A wrongheaded paradigm for our time
Product review: Samuel Huntington has a feeling for what America's foreign policy elite wants to hear. After he recommended in the 60s that America should prop up authoritative regimes (in 'Political Order in Changing Societies') he now wants us to believe that the rest of the world is full of irrational lunatics that are somehow loyal to so-called 'civilizations'. His thesis is empirically wrong and leads to false conclusions. See for a sweeping critique Stephen M. Walt, 'Building up new Bogeymen", Foreign Policy, No. 106, Spring 1997, or Yahya Sadowski, The Myth of Global Chaos (1998).
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