“divide the United States into two peoples, two cultures, and two languages”
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Samuel P. Huntington
Samuel Phillips Huntington was an American political scientist, adviser, and academic. He was the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University, where he directed the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
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Born 18 April 1927 · Died 24 December 2008 · Q19074
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2026· 3 entries
The Guardian: California’s conservative Huntington Beach could get a gay, Democratic congressman
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The New York Times: Samuel P. Huntington
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2008· 3 entries
Died 2008-12-24.
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After several years of declining health, Huntington died on December 24, 2008, at age 81 in Martha's Vineyard.
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“Niezależnie od tego, jakie grupy społeczne głosowały na kandydata (…), po wyborach liczy się (…) przede wszystkim jego zdolność mobilizowania poparcia ze strony kluczowych instytucji.”
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1996· 1 entry
“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.”
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1993· 1 entry
Huntington provoked great debate among international relations theorists with the interrogatively titled "The Clash of Civilizations
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded Grawemeyer Awards (1992).
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1986· 1 entry
Huntington was nominated for membership to the National Academy of Sciences
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1977· 1 entry
His friend Brzezinski—who had been appointed national security adviser in the administration of Jimmy Carter—invited Huntington to become White House coordinator of security planning for the National Security Council
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1968· 1 entry
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 regardin
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1927· 2 entries
Born 1927-04-18.
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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
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