Samuel Phillips Huntington

27. August 2008 | From Tino Kressner | Category: Portraits

Samuel Phillips Huntingten is an American political scientist and adviser to the U.S. State Department. He teaches at the Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University in Cambridge. Between 1977 and 1978 worked as a coordinator for national security at the White House. He is the founder and was seven years co-author of the magazine "Foreign Policy".

1993 Huntington in the magazine "Foreign Affairs" an essay with the title "The Clash of Civilizations?" And examines the question of whether it is after the end of the Cold War, a new paradigm of world politics and international relations there. He claims that in the 21st Century of the states conflict, imperialism and the struggle for ideologies through a clash of civilizations will be ousted. At this time, called a colleague Francis Fukuyama, the "end of history" and proclaimed the bloodless victory of market economy and liberalism over communism. Huntington took advantage of the great media coverage and highlighted the question mark behind the title of his book 1996, that it one of the most cited non-fiction authors around the world made.

The mid-nineties, his gloomy approaches have been argumentative contest, but eight years after the publication of his essay seemed to them with the terrorist attack on the Word Trade Center, at least in fact in the media perception enforce.