Samuel P. Huntington

Samuel Phillips Huntington (born April 18, 1927) is a political scientist known for his analysis of the relationship between the military and the civil government, his investigation of coup d'etats, and his thesis that the central political actors of the 21st century will be civilizations rather than nation-states. More recently, he garnered widespread attention for his analysis of threats posed to the United States by modern-day immigration. He is a professor at Harvard University. Huntington came to prominence as a scholar in the 1960s with the publication of Political Order in Changing Societies, a work which challenged the conventional view of modernization theorists that economic and social progress would bring about stable democracies in recently decolonized countries.

Selected Publications

• ' (1957),
• ' (1961),
• Political Order in Changing Societies (1968),
• ' (1981),
• ' (1991),
• The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996), the original 1993 Foreign Affairs article is available at Alamut.com
• Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity (2004), an article based on the book is available after (free) registration at Foreign Policy