A Quarter Century of the Clash of Civilizations

This book examines a key question: how does Samuel Huntington's "clash of civilizations" "paradigm" help explain current Western governments" responses to Muslim migration and related security issues?**

The "clash of civilizations" focuses on conflict and cooperation between and within states. Dealing with the clash is essential for a peaceful and harmonious world.

The "clash of civilizations" is a topic of great interest around the world and constitutes an important dimension of religion and international relations. In the quarter century since Huntington first aired his controversial framework, inter-civilizational "clash" and "dialogue" have become mainstream issues both in international relations and in many Western countries' domestic concerns. The book examines a key question: how does Samuel Huntington's "clash of civilizations" "paradigm" help explain current Western governments" responses to Muslim migration and related security issues? Understanding relations between the West/Westerners and Muslim-majority societies/Muslims is impossible without being aware that right-wing populist politicians in the West, as well as some policy makers and commentators, seem to view all Muslims in a malign way. This indicates a lack of willingness to make a distinction between, on the one hand, the mass of "moderate," "ordinary," and "peaceful" Muslims and, on the other hand, a small minority of Islamist extremists and even smaller number of Islamist terrorists. The result is a crucial topic of our times: how do different civilizations coexist in a small and increasingly congested planet without conflict?

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of The Review of Faith & International Affairs.

Autorentext

Jeffrey Haynes is emeritus professor at London Metropolitan University, UK. He is author or editor of more than 50 books. The most recent are: **Peace, Politics, and Religion (ed.), Basel, Switzerland: MDPI, 2020, and Religion, Conflict and Post-Secular Politics, London: Routledge, 2020.

Zusammenfassung
This book examines a key question: how does Samuel Huntington's "clash of civilizations" "paradigm" help explain current Western governments" responses to Muslim migration and related security issues?

Inhalt

Introduction: The "Clash of Civilizations" and Relations between the West and the Muslim World

Jeffrey Haynes

1. From Huntington to Trump: Twenty-Five Years of the "Clash of Civilizations"

Jeffrey Haynes

2. Civilization as Disciplinization and the Consequences for Religion and World Politics

Jocelyne Cesari

3. Civilizational Clash or Balderdash? The Causes of Religious Discrimination in Western and European Christian-Majority Democracies

Jonathan Fox

4. Europe versus Islam?: Right-Wing Populist Discourse and the Construction of a Civilizational Identity

Ahyan Kaya and Aye Tecmen

5. Religion, Cleavages, and Right-Wing Populist Parties: The Italian Case

Luca Ozzano

6. Religion as a Weapon: Invoking Religion in Secularized Societies

Petr Kratochvíl

7. Cultural Barbarism in Relation to Women?: Huntington's Theory and the German Case of Mass Sexual Assaults on New Year's Eve 2015

Barbara Pasamonik

8. Muslim Calls to Prayer in the Swedish Welfare State

Erik Ringmar