Samuel P. Huntington
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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. He is best known for his 1993 theory, the Clash of Civilizations, of a post-Cold War new world order. Source: [Samuel P. Huntington]( on Wikipedia.
Books
Political Order in Changing Societies (The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series)
Who are we?
"America was founded by British settlers who brought with them a distinct culture including the English language, Protestant values, individualism, religious commitment, and respect for law. The waves of immigrants that later came to the United States gradually accepted these values and assimilated into America's Anglo-Protestant culture. More recently, however, national identity has been eroded by the problems of assimilating massive numbers of primarily Hispanic immigrants, bilingualism, multiculturalism, the devaluation of citizenship, and the "denationalization" of American elites." "September 11 brought a revival of American patriotism and a renewal of American identity. But already there are signs that this revival is fading, even though in the post-September 11 world, Americans face unprecedented challenges to our security."--BOOK JACKET.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
From the Preface... In the summer of 1993 the journal Foreign Affairs published an article of mine titled "The Clash of Civilizations?". That article, according to the Foreign Affairs editors, stirred up more discussion in three years than any other article they had published since the 1940s. It certainly stirred up more debate in three years than anything else I have written. The responses and comments on it have come from every continent and scores of countries. People were variously impressed, intrigued, outraged, frightened, and perplexed by my argument that the central and most dangerous dimension of the emerging global politics would be conflict between groups from differing civilizations. Whatever else it did, the article struck a nerve in people of every civilization. Given the interest in, misrepresentation of, and controversy over the article, it seemed desirable for me to explore further the issues it raised. One constructive way of posing a question is to state an hypothesis. The article, which had a generally ignored question mark in its title, was an effort to do that. This book is intended to provide a fuller, deeper, and more thoroughly documented answer to the article's question. I here attempt to elaborate, refine, supplement, and, on occasion, qualify the themes set forth in the article and to develop many ideas and cover many topics not dealt with or touched on only in passing in the article.
Kampf der Kulturen
Der amerikanische Politikwissenschaftler Huntington stellt in seinem Buch die Frage nach den weltpolitischen Entwicklungen im 21. Jahrhundert. Statt eines harmonischen Zusammenwachsens in einer zunehmend vernetzten Welt sieht er neue Konflikte globalen Ausmasses entstehen: Konflikte zwischen den Kulturen. Er unterscheidet die zeitgenössische Welt in sieben grosse Zivilisationen: die chinesische, japanische, hinduistische, islamische, westliche, lateinamerikanische und afrikanische. Die Weltpolitik des 21. Jahrhunderts wird nicht von Auseinandersetzungen ideologischer oder wirtschaftlicher Natur bestimmt sein, sondern vom Konflikt zwischen Völkern und Volksgruppen unterschiedlicher kultureller Zugehörigkeit. Mit seiner aufsehenerregenden These vom "Clash of Civilisations" hat Huntington eine neue Formel für die künftige Weltordnung gefunden.
Political power
Comparative analysis of Soviet and American institutions, sponsored jointly by the Russian Institute and The Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University.
Changing patterns of military politics
Theoretical and empirical essays consider the pattern of violence in world politics.
The Crisis of Democracy: Report on the Governability of Democracies to the Trilateral Commission
Culture matters
Culture Matters explores the role of political culture studies as one of the major investigative fields in contemporary political science. Culture theory was the focal point of the late Aaron Wildavsky's teaching and research for the last decade of his life, a life that profoundly affected many fields of political science from the study of the presidency to public budgeting. Hence, in this volume, original essays prepared in Wildavsky's honor examine the arenas of rational choice, institutions, theories of change, political risk, the environment, and practical politics.
Botsende beschavingen
Studie over de wereldorde in de 21ste eeuw aan de hand van begrippen als beschaving, culturele identiteit en internationale verhoudingen.