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Samuel P. Huntington

1927 - 2008

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Samuel P. Huntington is the most popular political scientist, the 308th most popular biography from United States (down from 199th in 2019) and the most popular American Political Scientist.

Huntington is most famous for his book "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order."

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS

Among political scientists, Samuel P. Huntington ranks 1 out of 46. After him are Étienne de La Boétie, Robert A. Dahl, Christian Lous Lange, Francis Fukuyama, Hans Morgenthau, Aleksandr Dugin, Benedict Anderson, Georg Jellinek, Johan Galtung, Harold Lasswell, and Ralf Dahrendorf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Samuel P. Huntington ranks 12. Before him are Olof Palme, Gina Lollobrigida, K. Alex Müller, F. Sherwood Rowland, Peter Falk, and Roger Moore. After him are Kim Young-sam, Robert Shaw, Vladimir Komarov, Turgut Özal, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Ram Narayan. Among people deceased in 2008, Samuel P. Huntington ranks 10. Before him are Suharto, Bobby Fischer, Chinghiz Aitmatov, Edmund Hillary, Charlton Heston, and Arthur C. Clarke. After him are Willis Lamb, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Hua Guofeng, Albert Hofmann, Irena Sendler, and Richard Widmark.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Samuel P. Huntington ranks 308 out of 20,380. Before him are Jerry Brown (1938), Calvin Coolidge (1872), Neilia Hunter Biden (1942), Leon Czolgosz (1873), Wild Bill Hickok (1837), and Steve Ballmer (1956). After him are William Jennings Bryan (1860), Orson Welles (1915), Tommy Lee Jones (1946), Billy the Kid (1859), Steve Bannon (1953), and John R. Bolton (1948).

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS In United States

Among political scientists born in United States, Samuel P. Huntington ranks 1. After him are Robert A. Dahl (1915), Francis Fukuyama (1952), Harold Lasswell (1902), Joseph Nye (1937), John Mearsheimer (1947), Gene Sharp (1928), Graham Allison (1940), James Flynn (1934), Charles Murray (1943), Norman Finkelstein (1953), and William Graham Sumner (1840).

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