Clash of Civilization by Samuel Huntington have faced many accounts of criticism from many disciplines. He replied to his critics in a Foreign Policy article in 1993 titled as “If Not Civilizations, What?” He addressed some of the critiques to his thesis of civilizations in the article, however, he responded with “got a better idea?” In his article, he has identified what concepts, theories, and paradigms are. Furthermore, he pointed out by referencing Kuhn that “anomalous events do not falsify a paradigm” (Huntington). Moreover, he stressed that a paradigm can be falsified by providing an alternative paradigm that accounts for evidence and facts. However, his Civilization paradigm lacks empirical evidence and data per se. His methodology
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He stressed that few months after he has published his essay, several events has occurred in the world that corresponds with his thesis, to name few, the fighting among Croats, Muslims, and Serbs in the former Yugoslavia, the war between Armenian and Azerbaijan in Karabakh, and the fighting in central Asia between the Russian troops and the Mujahedeen militants. Furthermore, he pointed out that the Civilization thesis does not account for all the significant events that have occurred, there have been an anomaly event, the agreement between Palestinian Liberation Organization and the Israeli government yet it does not invalidate the thesis due to its historical significance and that the conflict is between two different ‘civilizations’. Considering a historical discourse of one specific case, then all other cases should be considered within the same scope. For instance, Nazi crimes on their own subjects, not only the Jews, as well as, the handicapped, gays, and other groups that were targeted by the Nazi regime. Another example would be the Ottoman state’s oppression of the Rum community, including the compulsory Greek-Turkish population exchange, resettlement of the Kurds, Assyrians, and the atrocities that paved the way for the Armenian
He stressed that few months after he has published his essay, several events has occurred in the world that corresponds with his thesis, to name few, the fighting among Croats, Muslims, and Serbs in the former Yugoslavia, the war between Armenian and Azerbaijan in Karabakh, and the fighting in central Asia between the Russian troops and the Mujahedeen militants. Furthermore, he pointed out that the Civilization thesis does not account for all the significant events that have occurred, there have been an anomaly event, the agreement between Palestinian Liberation Organization and the Israeli government yet it does not invalidate the thesis due to its historical significance and that the conflict is between two different ‘civilizations’. Considering a historical discourse of one specific case, then all other cases should be considered within the same scope. For instance, Nazi crimes on their own subjects, not only the Jews, as well as, the handicapped, gays, and other groups that were targeted by the Nazi regime. Another example would be the Ottoman state’s oppression of the Rum community, including the compulsory Greek-Turkish population exchange, resettlement of the Kurds, Assyrians, and the atrocities that paved the way for the Armenian