What is the Crush of Civilization? Samuel Huntington Masterpiece
Channel: International Relations & Politics
Date: 2022-04-21

Interview conducted on 2002
Samuel Phillips Huntington was an American political scientist, adviser, and academic. Huntington is best known for his 1993 theory, the "Clash of Civilizations", of a post-Cold War new world order. The Clash of Civilizations is a thesis that people's cultural and religious identities will be the primary source of conflict in the post–Cold War world. Huntington focuses primarily on political development as modernization and institutionalization. However, he points to the different definitions of political development as being arbitrary ways to understand the rise of political systems and the relationship between the political systems in different nations.

The American political scientist Samuel P. Huntington argued that future wars would be fought not between countries, but between cultures.He argued that future wars would be fought not between countries, but between cultures and that Islamic extremism would become the biggest threat to Western domination of the world

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. 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.

The Chinese Century is a neologism suggesting that the 21st century may be geoeconomically or geopolitically dominated by the People's Republic of China, similar to how the "American Century" refers to the 20th century and the "British Centuries" to the 18th and 19th.

During the presidency of Jimmy Carter, Huntington was the White House Coordinator of Security Planning for the National Security Council. During the 1980s Apartheid era in South Africa, he served as an adviser to P. W. Botha's Security Services.

Huntington argues that changes are caused by tensions within the political and social system, and criticizes modernization theory, contending that its argument for economic change and development being the prime factors responsible for the creation of stable, democratic political systems is flawed.

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