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- Huntington made significant contributions in the fields of civil-military relations, modernization and democratization theory, American political thought, and international relations. His life and work, which were never value-neutral and often challenged conventional wisdom, remain the subject of intense interest and controversy.
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What Huntington’s book did was simply to point out from the vantage point of 1968 that political development was not occurring in much of the recently independent, former colonial world. At that point in history, that world was characterized by coups, civil wars, upheavals, political instability.
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Samuel P. Huntington was an American political scientist, consultant to various U.S. government agencies, and an important political commentator in national debates on U.S. foreign policy in the late 20th and early 21st century.
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The Challenges to America's National Identity (2004) is a treatise by political scientist and historian Samuel P. Huntington (1927–2008). The book attempts to understand the nature of American identity and the challenges it will face in the future.
- Samuel P Huntington
- 2004
- Civil-Military Relations
- Political Development and Democratization
- American Politics
- The Clash of Civilizations
Huntington’s first major work, The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations(1957), develops a theory of civil-military relations and inaugurated the systematic academic study of the subject. The book is intended to correct “a confused and unsystematic set of assumptions and beliefs derived from the premises of Amer...
Political Order in Changing Societies (1968) remains Huntington’s most influential work among social scientists and policy strategists. It launched a wide-ranging challenge to the fundamental premises of “modernization theory,” then the dominant paradigm for understanding political development in the Third World. According to modernization theorist...
In the first of his two major works on American politics, Huntington addresses a central paradox at the heart of American political culture.American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony(1981) argues that the liberal moralism of the American creed stands in enduring tension with the requirements of American power: “The gap between promise and perform...
The article “The Clash of Civilizations” (1993) and subsequent book The Clash of Civilization and the Remaking of World Order(1996) increased Huntington’s renown. “Not intended to be a work of social science,” the work sets out to develop a new paradigm of international relations following the fall of the Soviet Union. “It is my hypothesis,” he wri...
May 1, 2018 · This was the claim of Samuel Huntington, who contended that a clash between the West and the ‘Muslim world’ would be the key foreign policy issue for the US (and the West more generally) after the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.
Huntington pointed out that every 50 years or so, American society was aroused by a renewed commitment to the principles of liberty and equality and, in the grip of what he called ‘creedal passion,’ Americans would attack the government by demanding that it actually live up to those principles.
During the presidency of Jimmy Carter, Huntington was the White House Coordinator of Security Planning for the National Security Council. Huntington is best known for his 1993 theory, the "Clash of Civilizations" otherwise known as COC, of a post– Cold War new world order.
