Date of Award
2013
Document Type
Thesis
Department
Political Science
First Advisor
Patrick Donnay
Abstract
I inquire into Samuel P. Huntington’s clash of civilizations theory as outlined in his landmark The Clash of Civilizations. I explore conflicts starting at the end of the Cold War to 2007 in order to examine whether Huntington’s theory has been materializing (there is a marked increase in conflicts between Civilizations, and they have become more intense) or if the face of conflicts has stayed relatively similar to Cold War era clashes. I use International Crisis Behavior data on conflicts since the fall of the U.S.S.R. which Huntington cites as the end of a bipolar world and the beginning of a new era of conflicts. I show that there is not a marked increase in the clash of civilizations that Huntington predicted.
Recommended Citation
Shindelar, John Daniel, "Hunting for Huntington’s Evidence: An Empirical Reassessment of The Clash of Civilizations Theory" (2013). Political Science Theses and Capstones. 94.
https://pines.bemidjistate.edu/capstone-polisci/94
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