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{{short description|American political scientist and academic (1927–2008)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Samuel P. Huntington
| image              = Samuel P. Huntington (2004 World Economic Forum).jpg
| caption            = Huntington in 2004
| birth_name         = Samuel Phillips Huntington
| birth_date         = {{birth date|1927|4|18}}
| birth_place        = New York City, U.S.
| death_date         = {{death date and age|2008|12|24|1927|4|18}}
| death_place        = [[Martha's Vineyard]], Massachusetts, U.S.
| party              = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| spouse             = {{marriage|Nancy Arkelyan|1957}}
| module             = {{Infobox academic
|child             = yes
|education = [[Yale University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[University of Chicago]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]])<br>[[Harvard University]] ([[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])
|thesis_title      = Clientelism: A Study in Administrative Politics
|thesis_year       = 1951
|influences        = [[Zbigniew Brzezinski]]<br>[[Feliks Koneczny]]<ref>Biliński P.[https://bazhum.muzhp.pl/media/files/Kwartalnik_Historii_Nauki_i_Techniki/Kwartalnik_Historii_Nauki_i_Techniki-r2005-t50-n1/Kwartalnik_Historii_Nauki_i_Techniki-r2005-t50-n1-s95-116/Kwartalnik_Historii_Nauki_i_Techniki-r2005-t50-n1-s95-116.pdf Feliks Karol Koneczny - Droga Kariery Akademickiej (in Polish)] ([https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16208880&dopt=Abstract English summary @ PubMed]), Kwart Hist Nauki Tech.</ref>
|discipline        = [[Political science]]<br />[[International relations]]
|sub_discipline    = 
|workplaces        = [[Harvard University]]<br>[[Columbia University]]
|doctoral_students = {{flatlist| 
*[[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)<br>''[[The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order]]'' (1996)
|notable_ideas     = {{hlist | [[Clash of civilizations]] | [[forced draft urbanization]] | [[Great Divergence]] | [[political decay]]}}
|influenced        = {{flatlist|
*[[Francis Fukuyama]]
*[[Kris Kobach]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Michael A. |last2=Anderson |first2=Kevin |last3=Rackaway |first3=Chapman |year=2015 |title=State Voting Laws in America: Historical Statutes and Their Modern Implications |location=New York |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |page=73 |doi=10.1057/9781137483584 |isbn=978-1-137-48358-4}}</ref>
*[[James Kurth]]
*[[John Mearsheimer]]
*[[Nawaf Obaid]]
*{{ill|Amos Perlmutter|cs}}
*[[Wang Huning]]}}}}
}}
'''Samuel Phillips Huntington''' (April 18, 1927{{spnd}}December 24, 2008) was an American [[political science|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 [[Harvard University Professor|Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor]].

During the [[presidency of Jimmy Carter]], Huntington was the [[White House]] coordinator of security planning for the [[United States National Security Council|National Security Council]]. 

Huntington is known best for his 1993 theory, the "[[Clash of Civilizations]]" otherwise known as COC, of a post&ndash;[[Cold War]] [[New world order (politics)|new world order]]. He argued that future wars would be fought not between countries, but between cultures, and that Islamic civilization would become the greatest threat to Western domination of the world. Huntington is credited with helping to shape American opinions on [[Civil–military relations|civilian-military relations]], political development, and comparative government.<ref name="nytimes">{{cite web |last=Lewin |first=Tamar |title=Samuel P. Huntington, 81, Political Scientist, Is Dead |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/29/education/29huntington.html?_r=0 |accessdate=June 9, 2015 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=December 28, 2008}}</ref> According to the [[Open Syllabus Project]], Huntington is the second most frequently cited author on college syllabi for political science courses.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://explorer.opensyllabus.org/results-list/authors?size=50&fields=Political%20Science | title=Open Syllabus Project | access-date=November 5, 2023}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Huntington was born on April 18, 1927, in New York City, the son of Richard Thomas Huntington, a publisher of hotel trade journals, and Dorothy Sanborn (née Phillips), a short-story writer.<ref name="Bloomberg_Hart_20071227">{{Cite news|first=Dan |last=Hart|publisher=[[Bloomberg News]] |title=Samuel Huntington, Harvard Political Scientist, Dies |date=December 27, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mindef.gov.sg/imindef/publications/pointer/journals/2009/v35n1/featured_author.html |title=POINTER - Journals - 2009 - Volume 35 Number 1 - Featured Author: Samuel P Huntington |publisher=Mindef.gov.sg |access-date=2012-08-17 |archive-date=May 6, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130506035635/http://www.mindef.gov.sg/imindef/publications/pointer/journals/2009/v35n1/featured_author.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> His grandfather was publisher [[John Sanborn Phillips]]. He graduated with distinction from [[Yale University]] at age 18. He served in the [[U.S. Army]] from April 1946 to May 1947 and was stationed at [[Fort Eustis]], Virginia.<ref>"Index Record for Samuel Huntington (1927) US, Veterans Affairs Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem Death File, 1850-2010", ''[[Fold3]] by Ancestry.com website''. Retrieved November 30, 2023. Enlistment Date is listed as "17 Apr 1946" and Release Date is listed as "11 May 1947".</ref> He then earned his [[master's degree]] from the [[University of Chicago]], and completed his [[PhD]] at [[Harvard University]], where he began teaching at age 23.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=December 27, 2008|url=http://www.gov.harvard.edu/faculty/shuntington/ |title=Samuel Huntington, Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor|publisher=Department of Government, Harvard University |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080430041506/http://www.gov.harvard.edu/faculty/shuntington/ |archive-date = April 30, 2008}}
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==Academic career==
Huntington was a member of Harvard's department of government from 1950 until he was denied tenure in 1959.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5408079.ece | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100525005440/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5408079.ece | url-status=dead | archive-date=May 25, 2010 | location=London | work=The Times | title=Professor Samuel Huntington author of The Clash of Civilizations | date=December 29, 2008}}</ref> Along with [[Zbigniew Brzezinski]], who had also been denied tenure, he moved to [[Columbia University]] in New York. From 1959 to 1962 he was an associate professor of government at Columbia, where he was also associate director of their [[Institute of War and Peace Studies]].<ref name="nytimes"/> Huntington was invited to return to Harvard with tenure in 1963 and remained there until his death. He was elected a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1965.<ref name="AAAS">{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter H|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterH.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=22 April 2011}}</ref> Huntington and [[Warren Demian Manshel]] co-founded and co-edited ''[[Foreign Policy]]''. Huntington stayed as co-editor until 1977.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/02/samuel-huntington-81-political-scientist-scholar/ |title=Samuel Huntington, 81, political scientist, scholar &#124; Harvard Gazette |publisher=News.harvard.edu |date= February 5, 2009|access-date=2012-08-17}}</ref>

Huntington's first major book was ''[[The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations]]'' (1957), which was highly controversial when it was published, but at present is regarded as the most influential book on American [[civil-military relations]].<ref>Michael C. Desch. 1998. "Soldiers, States, and Structures: The End of the Cold War and Weakening U.S. Civilian Control." Armed Forces & Society. 24(3): pages 389–405.</ref><ref>Michael C. Desch. 2001. ''Civilian Control of the Military: The Changing Security Environment''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.</ref><ref>Peter D. Feaver. 1996. "An American Crisis in Civilian Control and Civil-Military Relations?" ''The Tocqueville Review''. 17(1): 159.</ref> He became prominent with his ''[[Political Order in Changing Societies]]'' (1968), a work that challenged the conventional opinion of [[modernization]] theorists, that economic and social progress would produce stable democracies in recently [[Decolonization|decolonized]] countries. He also was co-author of ''[[The Crisis of Democracy: On the Governability of Democracies]]'', a report issued by the [[Trilateral Commission]] in 1976. In 1977, his friend [[Zbigniew Brzezinski|Brzezinski]]—who had been appointed [[National Security Advisor (United States)|national security adviser]] in the administration of [[Jimmy Carter]]—invited Huntington to become [[White House]] coordinator of security planning for the [[United States National Security Council|National Security Council]]. He served in this position until the end of 1978.

Huntington served as an instructor at [[MIT Seminar XXI]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://semxxi.mit.edu/about/messages/from-the-director |title=From the Director: September, 2015 |last=Art |first=Robert |date=September 1, 2015 |website=MIT Seminar XXI |publisher=[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]}}</ref> He continued to teach undergraduates until his retirement in 2007.

==Personal life==
Huntington met his wife, Nancy Arkelyan, when they were working together on a speech for 1956 presidential candidate [[Adlai Stevenson II|Adlai Stevenson]]. They had two sons, Nicholas and Timothy.<ref name="nytimes" />

After several years of declining health, Huntington died on December 24, 2008, at age 81 in [[Martha's Vineyard]].<ref name="Bloomberg_Hart_20071227" />

==Notable arguments==
===''The Soldier and the State''===
{{Main|The Soldier and the State}}
In ''The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations'' (1957),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/samuelp.huntingtonthesoldierandthestatethetheoryandpoliticsofcivilmilitaryrelationsbelknappress1957|title=Samuel P. Huntington The Soldier And The State ：the Theory And Politics Of Civil Military Relations Belknap Press (1957)|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> Huntington presents a general theory of civil–military relations. Huntington proposes a theory of objective civilian control, according to which the optimal means of asserting control over the armed forces is to professionalize them.

===''Political Order in Changing Societies''===
{{Main|Political Order in Changing Societies}}
In 1968, just as the United States' war in Vietnam was becoming most intense, Huntington published ''Political Order in Changing Societies'', which was a critique of the [[modernization]] theory which had affected much US policy regarding the developing world during the prior decade.

Huntington argued that as societies modernize, they become more complex and disordered. If the process of social modernization that produces this disorder is not matched by a process of political and institutional modernization—a process which produces political institutions capable of managing the stress of modernization—the result may be violence.

During the 1970s, Huntington was an advisor to governments, both democratic and dictatorial. During 1972, he met with [[Emílio Garrastazu Médici|Medici]] government representatives in Brazil; a year later he published the report "Approaches to Political Decompression", warning against the risks of a too-rapid political liberalization, proposing gradual liberalization, and a strong party state modeled upon the image of the Mexican [[Institutional Revolutionary Party]]. After a prolonged transition, Brazil became democratic during 1985.

During the 1980s, he became a valued adviser to the South African regime, which used his ideas on political order to craft its "total strategy" to reform apartheid and suppress growing resistance. He assured South Africa's rulers that increasing the repressive power of the state (which at that time included police violence, detention without trial, and torture) can be necessary to effect reform. The reform process, he told his South African audience, often requires "duplicity, deceit, faulty assumptions and purposeful blindness." He thus gave his imprimatur to his hosts' project of "reforming" apartheid rather than eliminating it.<ref>Joseph Lelyveld, Move Your Shadow (New York, 1985), pages 68–69; Shula Marks and Stanley Trapido, "South Africa Since 1976: an historical perspective," in Shaun Johnson, ed., South Africa: No Turning Back (London, 1988), pages 28–29</ref>

Huntington frequently cited Brazil as a success, alluding to his role in his 1988 presidential address to the [[American Political Science Association]], commenting that political science ''played a modest role in this process''. Critics, such as British political scientist Alan Hooper, note that contemporary Brazil has an especially unstable party system, wherein the best institutionalized party, [[Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva]]'s [[Workers' Party (Brazil)|Workers' Party]], emerged in opposition to controlled transition. Moreover, Hooper claims that the lack of civil participation in contemporary Brazil results from that top-down process of political participation transitions.

===''The Third Wave''===
{{Main|The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century}}
In his 1991 book ''The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century'', Huntington made the argument that beginning with Portugal's revolution during 1974, there has been a [[Third Wave Democracy|third wave of democratization]] which describes a global trend which includes more than 60 countries throughout Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa which have undergone some form of democratic transition. Huntington won the 1992 [[University of Louisville]] [[Grawemeyer Award]] for this book.<ref name="grawemeyer.org">{{cite web|title=1992- Samuel Huntington, Herman Daly and John Cobb|url=http://grawemeyer.org/worldorder/previous-winners/1992-samuel-huntington-herman-daly-and-john-cobb.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202231546/http://grawemeyer.org/worldorder/previous-winners/1992-samuel-huntington-herman-daly-and-john-cobb.html|archive-date=2013-12-02}}</ref>

==="The Clash of Civilizations"===
{{further|Clash of Civilizations}}
[[File:Clash of Civilizations mapn2.png|thumb|Map of the nine "civilizations" from Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations"]]
In 1993, Huntington provoked great debate among [[international relations]] theorists with the interrogatively titled "The Clash of Civilizations?", an influential, oft-cited article published in ''[[Foreign Affairs]]'' magazine. In the article, he argued that, after the fall of the Soviet Union, Islam would become the biggest obstacle to Western domination of the world. The West's next big war therefore, he said, would inevitably be with Islam.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Haruna|first=Mohammed|date=26 September 2001|title=Nigeria: September 11 And Huntington's Prophecy|newspaper=Daily Trust|url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200109270278.html|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Its description of post-Cold War [[geopolitics]] and the "inevitability of instability" contrasted with the influential "[[The End of History and the Last Man|End of History]]" thesis advocated by [[Francis Fukuyama]].

Huntington expanded "The Clash of Civilizations?" to book length and published it as ''[[The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order]]'' in 1996. The article and the book posit that post-Cold War conflict would most frequently and violently occur because of cultural rather than ideological differences. That, whilst in the Cold War, conflict occurred between the Capitalist Western Bloc and the Communist Eastern Bloc, it now was most likely to occur between the world's major civilizations—identifying eight, and a possible ninth: (i) Western, (ii) Latin American, (iii) Islamic, (iv) Sinic (Chinese), (v) Hindu, (vi) Orthodox, (vii) Japanese, (viii) African, and (ix) Buddhist. This cultural organization contrasts the contemporary world with the classical notion of sovereign states. To understand current and future conflict, cultural rifts must be understood, and culture—rather than the State—must be accepted as the reason for war. Thus, Western nations will lose predominance if they fail to recognize the irreconcilable nature of cultural tensions. Huntington argued that this post-Cold War shift in geopolitical organization and structure requires the West to strengthen itself culturally, by abandoning the imposition of its ideal of democratic universalism and its incessant military interventionism. Underscoring this point, Huntington wrote in the 1996 expansion, "In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://contemporarythinkers.org/samuel-huntington/|title=A Guide to the Work of Samuel Huntington|publisher=contemporarythinkers.org}}</ref>

The identification of Western Civilization with [[Western Christianity]] (Catholic-Protestant) was not Huntington's original idea, it was rather the traditional Western opinion and subdivision before the Cold War era.<ref>[[Peter Harrison (historian)|Peter Harrison]], [http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2018/01/17/4790945.htm An Eccentric Tradition: The Paradox of 'Western Values']</ref> Critics (for example articles in {{Lang|fr|[[Le Monde Diplomatique]]}}) call ''The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order'' the theoretical legitimization of American-caused Western aggression against China and the world's Islamic and Orthodox cultures. Other critics argue that Huntington's taxonomy is simplistic and arbitrary, and does not take account of the internal dynamics and partisan tensions within civilizations. Furthermore, critics argue that Huntington neglects ideological mobilization by elites and unfulfilled socioeconomic needs of the population as the real causal factors driving conflict, that he ignores conflicts that do not fit well with the civilizational borders identified by him, and that his new paradigm is nothing but [[Realism (international relations)|realist]] thinking in which "states" became replaced by "civilizations".<ref>see [[Richard E. Rubenstein]] and Jarle Crocker (1994): Challenging Huntington, in: Foreign Policy, Number 96 (Autumn, 1994), pages 113–28</ref> Huntington's influence upon US policy has been likened to that of historian [[Arnold J. Toynbee|Arnold Toynbee]]'s controversial religious theories about Asian leaders during the early twentieth century. The ''[[New York Times]]'' obituary on Huntington states that his "emphasis on ancient religious empires, as opposed to states or ethnicities, [as sources of global conflict] gained ... more cachet after the [[September 11 attacks|Sept. 11 attacks]]."<ref>[http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/27/samuel-huntington-foreign-policy-theorist-dies-at-81/ Samuel P. Huntington of Harvard Dies at 81], ''The New York Times'', December 27, 2008</ref>

Huntington wrote that Ukraine might divide along the cultural line between the more Catholic [[western Ukraine]] and Orthodox [[eastern Ukraine]]:
<blockquote>
While a statist approach highlights the possibility of a Russian-Ukrainian war, a civilizational approach minimizes that and instead highlights the possibility of Ukraine splitting in half, a separation which cultural factors would lead one to predict might be more violent than [[Dissolution of Czechoslovakia|that of Czechoslovakia]] but far less bloody than [[Breakup of Yugoslavia|that of Yugoslavia]].<ref>"[http://www.eurotrib.com/story/2014/3/1/204/17909 Testing Huntington in Ukraine]". European Tribune.</ref>
</blockquote>

===''Who Are We'' and immigration===
{{Main|Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity}}
Huntington's last book, ''Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity'', was published in May 2004. Its subject is the meaning of American [[national identity]] and what he describes as a cultural threat from large-scale immigration by Latinos, which Huntington says could "divide the United States into two peoples, two cultures, and two languages". In this book, he called for America to force immigrants to "adopt English" and the US to turn to "Protestant religions" to "save itself against the threats" of Latino and Islamic immigrants. In a book review for the academic journal ''Perspectives on Politics'', Gary M. Segura, Dean of the UCLA School of Public Affairs,<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://luskin.ucla.edu/person/gary-segura | title=Gary Segura Dean UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs| date=September 4, 2019}}</ref> asserted that the book should not be considered social science because of its divisive views and rhetoric.<ref name="cambridge.org">{{Cite journal | url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/who-are-we-the-challenges-to-americas-national-identity/641E6E46CEA79FD684F0277DD3C2985E |doi = 10.1017/S1537592705460259|title = Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity|year = 2005|last1 = Segura|first1 = Gary M.|journal = Perspectives on Politics|volume = 3|issue = 3| pages=640–642 |s2cid = 143248422|url-access = subscription}}</ref> Segura also called Huntington's writing of the book unforgivable on account of Huntington's academic position, saying that the work was a polemic rather than a work of scholarship.<ref name="cambridge.org"/>

===Other===
Huntington’s work on foreign affairs and Western culture was praised by [[Roger Scruton]] for its strong influence on contemporary [[conservatism]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Scruton |first=Roger |title=[[Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition]] |date=2017 |page=149-150|publisher=All Points Books|isbn=9781250170736}}</ref> Based on his Clash of Civilizations theory, Huntington had adviced conservatives to embrace "robust nationalism", which is based on the core values of conservatism.<ref name=Huntington38-39>Huntington, 1999, pp. 38-39 </ref> Huntington is also credited with inventing the phrase ''[[Davos Man]]'', referring to [[global elite]]s who "have little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national governments as residues from the past whose only useful function is to facilitate the elite's global operations".<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Huntington |first=Samuel P. |date=2004 |title=Dead Souls: The Denationalization of the American Elite |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42897520 |journal=The National Interest |issue=75 |pages=5–18 |jstor=42897520 |issn=0884-9382}}</ref> The phrase refers to the [[World Economic Forum]] in [[Davos]], Switzerland, where leaders of the [[economic globalization|global economy]] meet.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/comment/story/0,,1404411,00.html Davos man's death wish], ''The Guardian'', 3 February 2006</ref>

==National Academy of Sciences controversy==
In 1986, Huntington was nominated for membership to the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]]. The nomination was opposed by [[Serge Lang]], a Yale University mathematician inspired by the writings of mathematician [[Neal Koblitz]], who had accused Huntington of misusing mathematics and engaging in [[pseudo-science]]. Lang claimed that Huntington distorted the historical record and used pseudo-mathematics to make his conclusions seem convincing. Lang's campaign succeeded; Huntington was twice nominated and twice rejected. A detailed description of these events was published by Lang in "Academia, Journalism, and Politics: A Case Study: The Huntington Case" which occupies the first 222 pages of his 1998 book ''Challenges''.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Challenges|last=Lang|first=Serge | author-link = Serge Lang |year=1999|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0avTrkyT1VcC&pg=PA560 | publisher = Springer | location = New York | isbn=978-0-387-94861-4}}</ref>

Huntington's prominence as a Harvard professor and director of Harvard's Center for International Affairs led to significant media coverage of his defeated nomination to the NAS, including by ''The New York Times'' and ''The New Republic''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Boffey |first1=Philip M. |date=April 29, 1987 |title=Prominent Harvard Scholar Barred by Science Academy |at=section A, page 1 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/29/us/prominent-harvard-scholar-barred-by-science-academy.html |url-status=live |access-date=October 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231020071149/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/29/us/prominent-harvard-scholar-barred-by-science-academy.html |archive-date=October 20, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Zakaria |first1=Fareed |title=Blood lust in academia: The professor's vendetta |magazine=The New Republic |volume=197 |issue=4 |date=July 27, 1987 |pages=16–18}}</ref> His supporters included [[Herbert A. Simon]], a 1978 laureate of the [[Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel]]. Simon and Koblitz debated in multiple issues of ''[[Mathematical Intelligencer]]'', with other mathematicians joining in through ''Letters to the Editors'' column.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Koblitz|first=Neal|date=1988-12-01|title=A tale of three equations; or the emperors have no clothes|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03023843|journal=The Mathematical Intelligencer|language=en|volume=10|issue=1|pages=4–10|doi=10.1007/BF03023843|s2cid=121312716|issn=0343-6993|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Koblitz|first=Neal|date=1988-12-01|title=Reply to unclad emperors|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03023845|journal=The Mathematical Intelligencer|language=en|volume=10|issue=1|pages=14–16|doi=10.1007/BF03023845|s2cid=123030288|issn=0343-6993|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Simon|first1=Herbert A.|last2=Koblitz|first2=Neal|date=1988-03-01|title=Opinion|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03028350|journal=The Mathematical Intelligencer|language=en|volume=10|issue=2|pages=10–12|doi=10.1007/BF03028350|issn=0343-6993|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Simon|first=Herbert A.|date=1988-12-01|title=Unclad emperors: A case of mistaken identity|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03023844|journal=The Mathematical Intelligencer|language=en|volume=10|issue=1|pages=11–14|doi=10.1007/BF03023844|s2cid=123171596|issn=0343-6993|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Aubert|first1=Karl Egil|last2=Todorov|first2=Audrey|last3=Lazarus|first3=Andrew J.|last4=Simon|first4=Herbert A.|last5=Akin|first5=Ethan|last6=Koblitz|first6=Neal|date=1988-09-01|title=Letters to the editor|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03023736|journal=The Mathematical Intelligencer|language=en|volume=10|issue=4|pages=3–6|doi=10.1007/BF03023736|s2cid=189886367|issn=0343-6993|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

==Selected publications==
*"National Policy and the Transoceanic Navy." United States Naval Institute ''Proceedings'' 80, 5 (May 1954): pages 483–493. [https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1954/may/national-policy-and-transoceanic-navy online]
*''[[The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations]]'' (1957)
*''The Common Defense: Strategic Programs in National Politics'' (1961)
*''[[Political Order in Changing Societies]]'' (1968)
*''[[The Crisis of Democracy: On the Governability of Democracies]]'' with [[Michel Crozier]] and Joji Watanuki (1976)
*''Political Power: USA USSR - Similarities and contrasts, Convergence or evolution'' with [[Zbigniew Brzezinski]] (1977)
*''[https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674030213 American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony]'' (1981)
*"Democracy's third wave." ''Journal of democracy'' 2.2 (1991): pages 12–34. [http://www.mskenna.com/uploads/8/4/0/9/84096706/3rd_wave_huntington.pdf online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180403144434/http://www.mskenna.com/uploads/8/4/0/9/84096706/3rd_wave_huntington.pdf |date=April 3, 2018 }}
*''[[The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century]]'' (1991)
*''[[The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order]]'' (1996)
* "After twenty years: the future of the third wave." ''Journal of democracy'' 8.4 (1997): pages 3–12. [http://pscourses.ucsd.edu/ps200b/Huntington%20After%20Twenty%20Years%20--%20The%20Future%20of%20the%20Third%20Wave.pdf online]
*"Robust nationalism." [[The National Interest]] 58 (1999): 31-40. 
*''[[Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity]]'' (2004), based on the article [https://web.archive.org/web/20100411084006/http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2004/03/01/the_hispanic_challenge?page=full ''The Hispanic Challenge''], ''Foreign Policy'', March/April 2004

As editor:
*''Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress'' with [[Lawrence Harrison (academic)|Lawrence E. Harrison]] (2000)
*''Many Globalizations : Cultural Diversity in the Contemporary World'' with [[Peter L. Berger]] (2002)

==See also==
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*[[Clash of civilizations]]
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==References==
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==Further reading==
*Meaney, Thomas. [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/opinion/nato-russia-the-west-ukraine.html "The Return of 'The West'" New York Times March 11, 2022.]
*Interview by Richard Snyder: "Samuel P. Huntington: Order and Conflict in Global Perspective," pages 210–233, in Gerardo L. Munck and Richard Snyder, ''Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics'' (Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007).

==External links==
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*{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20160402034639/http://www.sam-network.org/video/samuel-huntington-on-the-clash-of-civilizations Samuel Huntington explaining himself his book and thesis about the clash of civilization in a 1997 interview with Charlie Rose]}}
*[http://www.trilateral.org/download/doc/crisis_of_democracy.pdf ''The Crisis of Democracy''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190821184442/http://trilateral.org/download/doc/crisis_of_democracy.pdf |date=August 21, 2019 }} Trilateral Commission report
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*[http://thoughtcast.org/casts/samuel-huntington Sam Huntington discusses "Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity" with Jenny Attiyeh on] Thoughtcast
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110722213716/http://www.commongroundnews.org/article.php?id=2949&lan=en&sid=1&sp=0 "Interview with Sam Huntington"] by Amina R. Chaudary – a 2006 interview with ''Islamica'' Magazine
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090311135027/https://www.fpri.org/enotes/200901.kurth.samuelhuntingtonideashaveconsequences.html Samuel Huntington: Ideas Have Consequences] by [[James Kurth]]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2017/07/18/samuel-huntington-a-prophet-for-the-trump-era/ ''Samuel Huntington, a prophet for the Trump era''] by [[Carlos Lozada (journalist)|Carlos Lozada]], ''The Washington Post'', July 18, 2017

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