Critique of Samuel Huntington's approach to international affairs

The book serves as a proof that there's no such thing as an international affairs expert and should be seen as a sermon to the faithful rather than scholarship aimed at skeptics. The core beliefs of civilizations being unchanging cultural organisms, the threat to western civilization, the need for purity at home, and separation from the rest are unfalsifiable axioms. Huntington's myriad bigotries are not deviations from a generally sound approach but sit at the heart of the book's appeal. The civilizational paradigm complements his nativism, hostility to social change, and lack of interest in economics and politics. The clash-style logic of the book is likely to survive as long as there is a constituency that subscribes to its axioms, regardless of the costs or dangers. The book is prescriptive and normative in nature.