Samuel P. Huntington

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Samuel Phillips Huntington was a famous American political scientist who proposed the controversial thesis of ‘The Clash of Civilizations’

Apr 18, 1927

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Biography

Personal Details

  • 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

Samuel P. Huntington born at

New York City

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Birth Place

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.

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Personal Life

He died of congestive heart failure at the age of 81.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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