The Cold War and Its Narratives

One of the essays about Huntington specifically that I found really interesting was by Edward Said and what he pointed out is that most Americans don't know very much about different countries. We need sort of a story to slot world events into and oftentimes those narratives are supplied by elites. The Cold War was in some way a narrative that was constructed by people like Samuel Huntington. That was partly a social construction, like it was partly real too but it was a very deliberate effort to create that kind of narrative for people. And this leads us into the epilogue of the episode about the book's legacy and kind of debunking.