His thesis, a comparative analysis between Western and Islamic political theories and images, was published in 1993 by American University Press with the title Alternative Paradigms: The Impact of Islamic and Western Weltanschauungs on Political Theory.

Rather, Red and Blue are themselves distinct Weltanschauungs, cultural world views that shape people's opinions on political questions.

Yet, many seem to feel it is really our First Iranian War, and perhaps it was one of the battles of World War III, oscillating between peaks of terror, low-intensity warfare, outbreaks of rebellion, changing demographics, destabilized Weltanschauungs, battles of collective consciousness, that in a historic perspective may form a discernible pattern.