I guess I'm not too familiar with the bulk of Huntington's work outside his civilizations stuff, which I know mostly in the sense that I think it's a pretty stupid idea, not in any I've-actually-read-his-argument sense. Perhaps it's better in the specifics than the broad summary, but yeah, I really don't like the idea of "civilizations" as an axis of conflict. Given the size of his body of work, writing a comprehensive biography on his ideas and influence and keeping it all under 3000 words could prove fairly challenging, so he remains a tenative subject only right now. The Haqqani paper will probably be recieving the bulk of my effort this semester, so I may decide to tackle Huntington another day.