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Clashing civilizations revisited

Posted in Geopolitics, Islamism, Josef Joffe on Jan 10th, 2008 Comments Off on Clashing civilizations revisited

From Josef Joffe Last Sunday’s New York Times Book Review ran an essay by Fouad Ajami, in which he doubts his own 1993 critique of Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations. Prompted by that reflection, we invited MESH member Josef Joffe to revisit Huntington’s thesis. Civilizational conflicts will supersede ideological conflicts. This is the key idea […]

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Is political Islam dying?

Posted in Hillel Fradkin, Islamism, Jon Alterman on Dec 20th, 2007 1 Comment »

From Hillel Fradkin Jon Alterman, in a piece for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (also here), addresses what he sees as a growing number of obituaries for political Islam. Alterman’s judgment about this trend is sober and reasonable: It is far too soon to tell. Although Alterman does not cite by name those […]

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