Samuel P. Huntington

@Harvard University, Life Achievements and Childhood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Samuel Phillips Huntington was a famous American political scientist who proposed the controversial thesis of ‘The Clash of Civilizations’ American Harvard University University Of Chicago Yale University Political Scientists Writers Aries Celebrities Samuel Phillips Huntington was an American political scientist and writer who rose to fame with his thesis ‘The Clash of Civilizations?’ which he later expanded into a book ‘The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order.’ A very prominent political scientist, he specialized in defense and international affairs, though his work covered diverse fields of political science. He played an important role as a political commentator on national debates on US Foreign Policy. After earning his doctorate from the Harvard University, he began teaching there. He specialized in American politics at the beginning of his career, later branching into other areas such as foreign policy, comparative politics, international relations and modernization. Huntington, along with Warren Demian Manshel founded an academic quarterly, ‘Foreign Policy’ in 1970 which was later changed into a bimonthly magazine. Huntington was a prolific writer and had published major works on multiple fields like defense policy, American political ideology, national security strategy, transnational organizations, processes of democratization, etc. He wrote, co-wrote or edited 17 books and numerous scholarly articles. He was an original thinker and many of his works were considered to be highly controversial at the time of their publication. Each one of his books dealt with a central political issue and his writings helped shape the American viewpoints on political development.

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Birthday: April 18, 1927 Died on: December 24, 2008 Nationality: American Famous: Harvard University, University Of Chicago, Yale University, Political Scientists, Writers Spouses: Nancy Arkelyan Known as: Samuel P. Huntington Universities: Harvard University,University Of Chicago,Yale University Stuyvesant High School Yale University University of Chicago Harvard University Information Detail Birthday April 18, 1927 Died on December 24, 2008 Nationality American Famous Harvard University, University Of Chicago, Yale University, Political Scientists, Writers Spouses Nancy Arkelyan Known as Samuel P. Huntington Universities Harvard University,University Of Chicago,Yale University Stuyvesant High School Yale University University of Chicago Harvard University Notable Alumnis Harvard University University Of Chicago Yale University Founder / Co-Founder Foreign Policy Birth Place New York City Political Ideology Democratic Gender Male Father Richard Thomas Huntington Mother Dorothy Sanborn Phillips Sun Sign Aries Born in New York City Died at Age 81

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Samuel Huntington was married to Nancy Arkelyan Huntington. They had been married for 51 years at the time of his death. He had two sons and four grandchildren. Unsplash Personal Life

He died of congestive heart failure at the age of 81. Unsplash Personal Life

Samuel P. Huntington was born in New York to Richard Thomas Huntington, a journalist and Dorothy Sanborn Phillips, a writer. His maternal grandfather John Sanborn Phillips was a famous publisher. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

He attended Stuyvesant High School, New York before graduating with distinction from the Yale University in 1946. He served a short stint with the US army before continuing his higher education. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

He earned his master’s degree in political science from the University of Chicago in 1948, after which he attended the Harvard University from where he completed his Ph.D. in political science in 1951. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

After earning his doctorate, he joined the faculty of the Harvard University where he taught from 1951 to 1958. He left in 1959 when his tenure was not renewed. Unsplash Career

He was appointed as the associate director of the Institute for War and Peace studies at Columbia University in 1959 where he served till 1962. Unsplash Career

In 1962, he returned to Harvard University and taught there for many years before being forced to retire because of ill health in 2007. There he also served two terms as the Chairman of the Department of Government (1967–69; 1970–71). Unsplash Career

Apart from his academic career, he also acted as a foreign policy adviser in Hubert H. Humphrey's 1968 campaign for president and served in the Carter Administration on the National Security Council staff as Coordinator of Security Planning in 1977–78. Unsplash Career

He was the Director of the Harvard Center for International Affairs for 12 years from 1978 to 1989. Unsplash Career

Huntington’s first book ‘The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations’ was published in 1957. In this book he examined the relationship between political power and military professionalism. Unsplash Major Works

In his next book ‘Political Order in Changing Societies’, published in 1968, he challenged the orthodoxies of the 1960s in the field of development. He showed that the lack of political order and authority were the most serious problems of developing nations. Unsplash Major Works

Along with Warren Demian Manshel, Huntington co-founded the journal ‘Foreign Policy’ in 1970. Originally the journal was a quarterly, though now it has changed to be a bi-monthly magazine. Unsplash Major Works

In his 1991 book ‘The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century’, he analyzed the global trend of transition of a range of countries from non-democratic to democratic political systems during the 1970’s and 1980’s. Unsplash Major Works

In 1993 he published his highly controversial thesis ‘The Clash of Civilizations?’ in which he predicted that the world will be divided into seven or eight large civilizations based on religious, historical, traditional, and cultural values, and conflicts will occur between the diverse civilizations. Unsplash Major Works

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Birthday	April 18, 1927
Died on	December 24, 2008
Nationality	American
Famous	Harvard University, University Of Chicago, Yale University, Political Scientists, Writers
Spouses	Nancy Arkelyan
Known as	Samuel P. Huntington
Universities	Harvard University,University Of Chicago,Yale University Stuyvesant High School Yale University University of Chicago Harvard University
Notable Alumnis	Harvard University University Of Chicago Yale University
Founder / Co-Founder	Foreign Policy
Birth Place	New York City
Political Ideology	Democratic
Gender	Male
Father	Richard Thomas Huntington
Mother	Dorothy Sanborn Phillips
Sun Sign	Aries
Born in	New York City
Died at Age	81

Samuel P. Huntington

American

Apr 18, 1927

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