Biography Of Samuel P. Huntington
Real Name
Samuel P. Huntington
Profession
Intellectuals & Academics
Nick Name
Samuel P. Huntington
Nationality
American
Political Ideology
Democratic
Personal Life of Samuel P. Huntington
Born on
18 April 1927
Birthday
18th April
Died At Age
81
Sun Sign
Aries
Born in
New York City
Died on
24 December 2008
Place of death
Martha's Vineyard
Family Background of Samuel P. Huntington
Father
Richard Thomas Huntington
Mother
Dorothy Sanborn Phillips
Spouse/Partner
Nancy Arkelyan
Education
Stuyvesant High School, Yale University, University of Chicago, Harvard University
Founder/Co-Founder
Foreign Policy
Personal Fact of Samuel P. Huntington
Samuel Phillips Huntington was an American political scientist and writer who rose to fame with his thesis The Clash of Civilizations which he later expanded into a book The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order.A very prominent political scientist, he specialized in defense and international affairs, though his work covered diverse fields of political science. He played an important role as a political commentator on national debates on US Foreign Policy.
After earning his doctorate from the Harvard University, he began teaching there. He specialized in American politics at the beginning of his career, later branching into other areas such as foreign policy, comparative politics, international relations and modernization. Huntington, along with Warren Demian Manshel founded an academic quarterly, Foreign Policy in 1970 which was later changed into a bimonthly magazine.
Huntington was a prolific writer and had published major works on multiple fields like defense policy, American political ideology, national security strategy, transnational organizations, processes of democratization, etc. He wrote, co-wrote or edited 17 books and numerous scholarly articles. He was an original thinker and many of his works were considered to be highly controversial at the time of their publication. Each one of his books dealt with a central political issue and his writings helped shape the American viewpoints on political development.
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