Samuel P. Huntington
Samuel Phillips Huntington was an American political scientist, adviser, and academic. He was the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University, where he directed the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- New York City
- Educated at
- Harvard UniversityYale UniversityUniversity of ChicagoStuyvesant High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 Grawemeyer Awards🏆 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Eliot A. Cohen📖 Stephen D. Krasner
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Trending topics shown first"Hypocrisy, double standards, and "but nots" are the price of universalist pretensions. Democracy is promoted, but not if it brings Islamic fundamentalists to power; nonproliferation is preached for Ir…"
"The dangerous clashes of the future are likely to arise from the interaction of Western arrogance, Islamic intolerance, and Sinic assertiveness."
"China under the Tang, Sung, and Ming dynasties, the Islamic world from the eighth to the twelfth centuries, and Byzantium from the eighth to the eleventh centuries far surpassed Europe in wealth, terr…"
"In the early 1990s Muslims were engaged in more intergroup violence than were non-Muslims, and two-thirds to three-quarters of intercivilizational wars were between Muslims and non-Muslims. Islam's bo…"
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Timeline
1927
Born
Birth2008
Died
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