Samuel P. Huntington

Samuel Phillips Huntington (April 18, 1927 – December 24, 2008) was an American political scientist, adviser, and academic. He spent more than half a century at Harvard University, where he was director of Harvard's Center for International Affairs and the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor.

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Samuel P. Huntington
Huntington in 2004
Born	Samuel Phillips Huntington (1927-04-18)April 18, 1927 New York City, U.S.
Died	December 24, 2008(2008-12-24) (aged 81) Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, U.S.
Education	Yale University (BA) University of Chicago (MA) Harvard University (PhD)
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Nancy Arkelyan ​ (m. 1957)​
Academic background
Thesis	Clientelism: A Study in Administrative Politics (1951)
Influences	Zbigniew Brzezinski Feliks Koneczny[1]
Academic work
Discipline	Political science International relations
Institutions	Harvard University Columbia University
Doctoral students	Fareed Zakaria Stephen Peter Rosen Joel S. Migdal Scott Sagan Aaron Friedberg Peter Feaver Eliot A. Cohen Francis Fukuyama
Notable works	Political Order in Changing Societies (1968) The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)
Notable ideas	Clash of civilizations forced draft urbanization Great Divergence political decay
Influenced	Francis Fukuyama Kris Kobach[2] James Kurth John Mearsheimer Nawaf Obaid Amos Perlmutter [cs] Wang Huning

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", of a post–Cold War new world order. He argued that future wars would be fought not between countries, but between cultures, and that Islamic civilization would become the biggest threat to Western domination of the world. Huntington is credited with helping to shape American views on civilian-military relations, political development, and comparative government.[3] According to the Open Syllabus Project, Huntington is the second most frequently cited author on college syllabi for political science courses.[4]