Anyway, I am repeating myself and that means we are talking next to each other, which is a bit useless and a loss of time for both of us.

That these politicians (Trump, Orban, Bolsonaro, Wilders) are academically wrong does not undo the fact that their policies have real effects in the world out there.

The OP posted a reaction to a Foreign Policy article that claimed Huntington was vindicated, and argued (correctly so) that IR as a discipline had abandoned that framework. To which I added "correct, but his legacy lives on because many contemporary politicians think in civilizational terms"

Yes i know that’s why the clash of civilisations was rubbish to start with.

Somehow the slogan "The people, united, will never cite a source in a college essay" does not cut it.

So let's put it as follows: academically Huntington has become irrelevant, but his ideas live on (good to note too that he did not start civilizational thinking and neither was the most eloquent exponent, but he happened to formulate it so it resonated with the powers that be).

I started with agreeing with you. Huntington analysis was wrong then as it is now, but his ideas are very alive in the sense that many people take on that view of the world, and act politically accordingly. Orban, Trump, Bolsonaro and their voters see the world in civilizational terms.

especially African things ;-)

If men define situations as real they become real in their consequences.

I agree, but in the world out there civilisationism is as strong as ever.

Op de keper beschouwd een beloning voor wangedrag.

Ik zou toch wel eens graag bronnen zien voor die uitruil van militaire technologie in ruil voor het Von Ribbentrop pact. Echt nog nooit over gehoord (maar ben geen historicus)

Misschien een vorm van subliminatie die ervoor zorgt dat ze het niet echt doen?

Maak daar de "keiharde kern klootzakken" van

De harde kern klootzakken allitereert anders wel lekkerrrrr