Title: Interesting but flawed
Product review: Huntingdon's thesis is interesting but offers very little outside of Eastern Europe (where I think his analysis is a little stronger). His take on Islam is wrongheaded and shallow, and virtually nothing useful in predicted about China.It's interesting how, just around the time that we needed to find some new enemies and justifications for conflict with them, we have Huntingdon and his "Clash of Civilizations". I can't help but think that this is too convenient. While I don't agree with the End of History crowd or any other such triumphalist movements, I think Huntingdon is, fundamentally, looking for trouble.I worry that the "civilizational fault lines" idea could become a reality if enough influential people start believing it. Western foreign policy wonks have a astounding ability to distort reality; remember the way that African civil wars suddenly acquired "more communist" and "more democratic" sides during the Cold War?
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