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24 december 2008 martha 's vineyard , massachusetts fukuyama , mearsheimer new york city , new york american political science harvard university columbia university 18 april 1927 '' clash of civilizations '' samuel . jpg p. huntington -lrb- 2004 world economic forum -rrb- samuel p. huntington
 samuel phillips huntington huntington in january 2004 stuyvesant university high school harvard university university of chicago yale
samuel p. huntington

samuel phillips huntington -lrb- april 18 , 1927 -- december 24 , 2008 -rrb- was an influential american conservative 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 carter administration , huntington was the white house coordinator of security planning for the national security council .
he is most well-known by his 1993 theory , `` the clash of civilizations '' , 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 extremism would become the biggest threat to western world domination .
huntington is credited with helping to shape u.s. views on civilian-military relations , political development , and comparative government .
