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1927–2008 United States

Samuel Phillips Huntington (18 April 1927 – 24 December 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.

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Also known as: Samuel Huntington, Clash of Civilizations

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Undoubtedly many more people in the world are concerned with sports than with human rights.

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)

In the post-Cold War world, for the first time in history, global politics has become multipolar and multicivilizational.

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)

The most important groupings of states are no longer the three blocs of the Cold War but rather the world’s seven or eight major civilizations.

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)

Many more people in the world are concerned with sports than with human rights.

The clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order (1997)

Those who do not recognize fundamental divides, however, are doomed to be frustrated by them.

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)

In Eurasia the great historic fault lines between civilizations are once more aflame.

The Clash of Civilizations? (1993)

Cultural and civilizational diversity challenges the Western and particularly American belief in the universal relevance of Western culture.

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)

The futures of both peace and Civilization depend upon understanding and cooperation among the political, spiritual, and intellectual leaders of the world’s major civilizations.

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)

The dangerous clashes of the future are likely to arise from the interaction of Western arrogance, Islamic intolerance, and Sinic assertiveness.

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)

Multiculturalism is in its essence anti-European civilization.

Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity (2004)

Avoidance of a global war of civilizations depends on world leaders accepting and cooperating to maintain the multicivilizational character of global politics.

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)

To describe America as a "nation of immigrants" is to stretch a partial truth into a misleading falsehood, and to ignore the central fact of America's beginning as a society of settlers.

Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity (2004)

In the emerging era, clashes of civilizations are the greatest threat to world peace, and an international order based on civilizations is the surest safeguard against world war.

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)

The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future.

When civilizations first emerge, their people are usually vigorous, dynamic, brutal, mobile, and expansionist. They are relatively uncivilized.

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)

Cultural America is under siege. And as the Soviet experience illustrates, ideology is a weak glue to hold together people otherwise lacking racial, ethnic, and cultural sources of community.

Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity (2004)

National interests derive from national identity. We have to know who we are before we can know what our interests are.

Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity (2004)

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

In the early 1990s Muslims were engaged in more intergroup violence than were non-Muslims, and two-thirds to three-quarters of intercivilizational wars were between Muslims and non-Muslims. Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards.

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)

In Western Europe, anti-Semitism directed against Arabs has largely replaced Anti-Semitism against Jews...

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)

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