Samuel Huntington

Extracted Attributes

• Employer

  Harvard University

• Full Name

  Samuel Phillips Huntington

• Influence

  Second most frequently cited author in college political science syllabi

• Alma Mater

  Yale University (B.A.), University of Chicago (M.A.), Harvard University (Ph.D.)

• Occupation

  Political scientist, academic, adviser

• Nationality

  American

• Key Position

  Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard

• Publications

  17 books and nearly 100 scholarly articles

• Date of Birth

  1927-04-18

• Date of Death

  2008-12-24

• Notable Theory

  Clash of Civilizations (1993)

• Place of Birth

  New York City, New York, U.S.

• Place of Death

  Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, U.S.

• Government Role

  White House coordinator of security planning for the National Security Council

• Journal Founded

  Foreign Policy (1970)

• Professional Presidency

  President of the American Political Science Association (1986–87)

• Years at Harvard University

  Over 50 years (taught since 1950)

Timeline

• Born in New York City. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, Web search results)

  1927-04-18

• Received his B.A. from Yale University. (Source: Web search results)

  1946

• Received his M.A. from the University of Chicago. (Source: Web search results)

  1948

• Began teaching at Harvard University. (Source: Web search results)

  1950

• Received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. (Source: Web search results)

  1951

• Advised Vice President Hubert Humphrey during his unsuccessful presidential campaign. (Source: Web search results)

  1968

• Founded the journal Foreign Policy. (Source: Web search results)

  1970

• Began serving as the White House coordinator of security planning for the National Security Council during President Jimmy Carter's administration. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, Web search results)

  1977

• Concluded his service as the White House coordinator of security planning for the National Security Council. (Source: Web search results)

  1979

• Began his term as president of the American Political Science Association. (Source: Web search results)

  1986

• Concluded his term as president of the American Political Science Association. (Source: Web search results)

  1987

• Published his influential theory, the "Clash of Civilizations." (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)

  1993

• Died on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, at the age of 81. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, Web search results)

  2008-12-24

Samuel P. Huntington

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. During the presidency of Jimmy Carter, Huntington was the White House coordinator of security planning for the National Security Council. Huntington is known best for his 1993 theory, the "Clash of Civilizations" otherwise known as COC, of a post–Cold War 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 civilian-military relations, political development, and comparative government. According to the Open Syllabus Project, Huntington is the second most frequently cited author on college syllabi for political science courses.

Web Search Results

• Samuel P. Huntington | Political Scientist, Harvard Professor, Author

  Samuel P. Huntington (born April 18, 1927, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Dec. 24, 2008, Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.) was an American political scientist, consultant to various U.S. government agencies, and an important political commentator in national debates on U.S. foreign policy in the late 20th and early 21st century. [...] SUBSCRIBE Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos # Samuel P. Huntington American political scientist Print Written by Richard K. Betts Leo Shifrin Professor of War and Peace Studies, Director of Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University, New York. Author of Soldiers, Statesmen, and Cold War Crises, Nonproliferation and... Richard K. Betts Fact-checked by [...] Huntington founded the journal Foreign Policy in 1970 and later served as president of the American Political Science Association (1986–87). He was an adviser to Vice President Hubert Humphrey during Humphrey’s unsuccessful 1968 presidential campaign, chairman of the Democratic Party’s Foreign Policy Advisory Committee in the mid-1970s, and coordinator of security planning in the National Security Council (1977–79) during the administration of President Jimmy Carter.

• Samuel P. Huntington | Research Starters - EBSCO

  Samuel P. Huntington was a prominent American political scientist known for his influential theories on cultural conflicts and political dynamics. Born on April 18, 1927, in New York City, he pursued an impressive academic journey that included degrees from Yale University and the University of Chicago, culminating in a PhD from Harvard University, where he taught for fifty-eight years. Huntington authored seventeen books and nearly one hundred scholarly articles, with his most notable work [...] Significance:Samuel P. Huntington was an influential political scientist who taught at Harvard University for fifty-eight years. Huntington published seventeen books and nearly one hundred scholarly articles. He is best-known for his theory that while past wars were fought because of conflicts about territory and resources, future wars would be fought over cultural differences and ideologies. ## Background [...] # Samuel P. Huntington Political scientist, author, educator Born: April 18, 1927 Place of Birth: Place of birth: New York City Died: December 24, 2008 Place of Death: Place of death: Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts Education: Harvard University; University of Chicago; Yale University

• Biography - Samuel Huntington - Contemporary Thinkers

  CONTEMPORARY THINKERS # Samuel Huntington # Biography Samuel Phillips Huntington (1927–2008) was the Albert J. Weatherhead Professor in the Harvard Department of Government and one of the twentieth century’s most influential and controversial political scientists. The bulk of Huntington’s career was spent teaching and writing at Harvard, interspersed with forays into national, state and local politics. [...] Huntington wrote or edited seventeen books and produced close to one hundred scholarly articles. He is among the most frequently-cited social scientists of the past century and made significant contributions in the fields of civil-military relations, modernization and democratization theory, American political thought, and international relations. Huntington frequently declared that he and the Harvard Center for International Affairs where he worked were devoted to “policy-relevant basic

• Samuel Huntington, 81, political scientist, scholar - Harvard Gazette

  Samuel Phillips Huntington was born on April 18, 1927, in New York City. He was the son of Richard Thomas Huntington, an editor and publisher, and Dorothy Sanborn Phillips, a writer. Huntington graduated from Stuyvesant High School, received his B.A. from Yale in 1946, served in the U.S. Army, earned an M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1948, and a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1951, where he had taught nearly without a break since 1950. [...] Huntington, the father of two grown sons, lived in Boston and on Martha’s Vineyard. He was the author, co-author, or editor of 17 books and over 90 scholarly articles. His principal areas of research and teaching were American government, democratization, military politics, strategy, and civil-military relations, comparative politics, and political development. [...] ## ‘One of the most influential political scientists of the last 50 years’ Samuel P. Huntington – a longtime Harvard University professor, an influential political scientist, and mentor to a generation of scholars in widely divergent fields – died Dec. 24 on Martha’s Vineyard. He was 81.

• Samuel Huntington (July 16, 1731 - Connecticut Judicial Branch

  Image 3: Samuel HuntingtonWho was the man that some consider to be the first president of the United States?Samuel Huntington was born on July 16, 1731 on a farm in Windham, CT. As a young man, Samuel lacked opportunities for formal education, so he instead taught himself in the library of the local minister, Ebenezer Devotion. After years of studying the law books from Devotion's collection, Samuel passed the bar and was admitted to practice law in March of 1754. Samuel married Martha [...] Our Libraries Connecticut Legal Research Federal / Other Legal Research Find Help For Librarians General Reference Representing Yourself Tapping the Scales of Justice - A Dose of Connecticut Legal History Samuel Huntington (July 16, 1731 - January 5, 1796) _The First President of the United States?_ [...] On September 28, 1779, Samuel Huntington was elected 6th president of Congress and began serving his term. During that term, on March 1, 1781, the Articles of ConfederationImage 4: External Link became operative as the first Constitution of the United States. The first section of the Articles of Confederation contains the first reference to our nation as the 'United States'. Some historians argue that this makes Samuel Huntington the first president of the United States - this point of debate

• Image

  

• Gender

  male

• Educated At

  Yale University

• Instance Of

  Q5

• Occupation

  politician

• Citizenship

  United States

• Date Of Birth

  10/4/1765

• Date Of Death

  6/8/1817

• Place Of Birth

  Coventry

• Place Of Death

  Painesville