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May 22, 2003 · At the level of international relations the positive aspects of Huntington’s work stem from his allegiance to the realist paradigm and the adequacy of this paradigm in light of the failure of Fukuyama’s liberal utopia to materialize with the fall of Communism.
- Emad El-Din Aysha
- 2003
- 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...
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.
Oct 19, 2023 · Huntington would almost certainly abhor many of the uses of his arguments, given his interpersonal decency, frequent travel to universities and legislatures around the world, mentorship of and...
Jan 6, 2011 · Huntington spends a whole chapter on the famous Protestant work ethic, which he sees as deeply embedded in American character and central to American identity.
Consider an example: One aspect of the American creed, according to Huntington, is a general opposition to unequal authority. The belief in democracy, he seems to think, is the belief that anyone affected by any decision in any institution is to have an equal influence on the decision-making process.
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No matter whether one has a positive or negative view of Huntington’s work, he was undeniably influential in the field of political science. Huntington taught for over 50 years at Harvard University (Harvard Gazette, 2008).
