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• Winner of CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2020 2020

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From Huntington to Trump argues that the “clash of civilizations,” an idea first raised three decades ago by Bernard Lewis and endorsed by Samuel Huntington, has created a template for understanding the world which has been adopted by both the United Nations and right-wing populist politicians in Europe and the United States of America. Haynes traces the development of the “clash of civilizations” from the colonial period through the end of the Cold War and 9/11 and analyzes its effects on society.

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Samuel Huntington's clash of civilizations theory has been controversial among academics since it was introduced. Jeffrey Haynes demonstrates that the belief that there is a clash of civilizations is having an increasing impact on politics. It fuels populism as well as anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant sentiments in the West. It has also spurred a dialogue among civilizations initiative by the United Nations. This book provides a new perspective and insight on how Huntington's theory impacts politics. It shows that the theory's greatest influence is not in its ability to explain politics but in how it captures the minds of some political actors and influences their behavior. -- Jonathan Fox, Yehuda Avner Professor of Religion and Politics, Bar Ilan University

Samuel Huntington's clash of civilizations theory has been controversial among academics since it was introduced. Jeffrey Haynes demonstrates that the belief that there is a clash of civilizations is having an increasing impact on politics. It fuels populism as well as anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant sentiments in the West. It has also spurred a dialogue among civilizations initiative by the United Nations. This book provides a new perspective and insight on how Huntington's theory impacts politics. It shows that the theory's greatest influence is not in its ability to explain politics but in how it captures the minds of some political actors and influences their behavior. -- Jonathan Fox, Yehuda Avner Professor of Religion and Politics, Bar Ilan University Jeffrey Haynes connects two apparently unrelated phenomena: Harvard professor Huntington's 1993 clash of civilizations, a controversial explanation of the post-Cold War world order, and the U.S. Presidency of Donald Trump over twenty years after Huntington. With remarkable clarity and coherence, Haynes writes what is an important chapter of a crisis of the misunderstandings of America-led liberal world order, of which both Huntington and Trump are but symptoms. -- Vendulka Kubalkova, professor of international studies, University of Miami Haynes engagement with the clash of civilizations is a timely contribution, demonstrating how fears of others became entrenched and dispelling self-evident and popularized truths about civilizational conflicts. -- Guy Ben-Porat, department chairperson, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Jeffrey Haynes' book presents a unique synthetic and critical analysis of the clash of civilizations across different political and cultural contexts over the last three decades. It is a must-read for students of politics as well as for members of the media and journalists. -- Jocelyne Cesari, University of Birmingham and Georgetown University

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Jeffrey Haynes is emeritus professor of politics at London Metropolitan University.

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