Study Guide: Clash of Civilizations
Most articles via ProQuest on the NMH Virtual Desktop
Reading Notes are expected with each day’s assigned readings:
Due W, 12/1 — Samuel Huntington, “The Clash of Civilizations?,” Foreign Affairs, Summer 1993
Due W, 12/1 — Summary of Huntington’s thesis and reactions
Video: Samuel Huntington interviewed by Charlie Rose, January 30, 1997
Responses to Huntington
Due Th, 12/2 — See Foreign Affairs, Sept-Oct., 1993 for responses to Huntington from Fouad Ajami, Liu Binyan, and Kishore Mahubani
Due Th, 12/2 — Richard K. Betts, “Conflict or Cooperation?: Three Visions Revisited, Foreign Affairs, Nov/Dec, 2010, 186ff.
Due F, 12/3 – Karim Raslan, “The Islam Gap,” New York Times, Feb. 15, 2006
Optional Extra Reading: Fouad Ajami’s second thoughts: “The Clash,” New York Times Book Review, Jan. 6, 2008 – There are many other relevant articles on the “clash, Islamophobia, and related problems in the same issue: click here for the table of contents.
Due F, 12/3 – Edward Said, “The Clash of Ignorance,” The Nation, Oct. 22, 2001
Video: Edward Said on Huntington and “the Clash”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boBzrqF4vmo&feature=related
Due same time you turn in final project paper: Read this short article (via NMH VDT): The Economist, “Unholy Rows, Holy Places,” Oct. 9, 2010 . Write a response drawing on Huntington’s “Clash” essay and at least one other assigned reading from this week’s study. Footnotes and Academic Integrity Pledge required.
Other Resources
Orville Schell’s review of a new book by Ian Morris (12/12/2010)
Huntington archive on this blog
New York City Islamic Center Debate, Summer-Fall, 2010
Ibn Warraq, “Democracy in a Cartoon,” SpiegelOnline, Feb. 3, 2006
More on the 2006 cartoon controversy
The Legacy of Samuel P. Huntington - Video from Kennedy School of Government retrospective forum held Nov. 30, 2010 (RealPlayer required).
Francis Fukuyama, “Political Order in Egypt,” The American Interest Online, May-June, 2011
Robin Wright on the struggle within Islam
Edward Said on “Orientalism”
Summary of Said’s thesis and reaction
See also “Wars of Words and Images” (survey of polemical attacks of one tradition on the other through history)
