Samuel Phillips Huntington (April 18, 1927 – December 24, 2008) was an influential conservative political scientist from the United States of America whose works covered multiple sub-fields of political science. He gained wider prominence through his Clash of Civilizations (1993, 1996) thesis of a post-Cold War new world order.
He was a member of Harvard's department of government from 1950 until he was denied tenure in 1959.From 1959 to 1962 he was an associate professor of government at Columbia University where he was also Deputy Director of The Institute for War and Peace Studies. Huntington was invited to return to Harvard with tenure in 1963 and remained there until his death. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1965.Huntington and Warren Demian Manshel co-founded and co-edited Foreign Policy. Huntington stayed as co-editor until 1977.
His first major book was The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations, (1957) which was highly controversial when it was published, but today is regarded as the most influential book on American civil-military relations. He became prominent with his Political Order in Changing Societies (1968), a work that challenged the conventional view of modernization theorists, that economic and social progress would produce stable democracies in recently decolonized countries. As a consultant to the U.S. Department of State, and in an influential 1968 article in Foreign Affairs, he advocated the concentration of the rural population of South Vietnam as a means of isolating the Viet Cong. He also was co-author of The Crisis of Democracy: On the Governability of Democracies, a report issued by the Trilateral Commission in 1976. During 1977 and 1978, in the administration of Jimmy Carter, he was the White House Coordinator of Security Planning for the National Security Council.
Huntington died on December 24, 2008, at age 81 in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
Since its initial publication nearly fifteen years ago The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order has become a classic work of international relations and one of the most influential books ever written about foreign affairs. An insightful and powerful analysis of the forces driving global politics, it is as indispensable to our understanding of American foreign policy today as the day it was published. As former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski says in his new foreword to the book, it “has earned a place on the shelf of only about a dozen or so truly enduring works that provide the quintessential insights necessary for a broad understanding of world affairs in our time.” Samuel Huntington explains how clashes between civilizations are the greatest threat to world peace but also how an international order based on civilizations is the best safeguard against war. Events since the publication of the book have proved the wisdom of that analysis. The 9/11 attacks and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have demonstrated the threat of civilizations but have also shown how vital international cross-civilization cooperation is to restoring peace. As ideological distinctions among nations have been replaced by cultural differences, world politics has been reconfigured. Across the globe, new conflicts—and new cooperation—have replaced the old order of the Cold War era. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order explains how the population explosion in Muslim countries and the economic rise of East Asia are changing global politics. These developments challenge Western dominance, promote opposition to supposedly “universal” Western ideals, and intensify intercivilization conflict over such issues as nuclear proliferation, immigration, human rights, and democracy. The Muslim population surge has led to many small wars throughout Eurasia, and the rise of China could lead to a global war of civilizations. Huntington offers a strategy for the West to preserve its unique culture and emphasizes the need for people everywhere to learn to coexist in a complex, multipolar, muliticivilizational world.
虽然此书写作距今已有25年,却依然很有意义,时间甚至为书中观点提供了更多的证据。书中附录貌似公允的评论,看来仍是一副中庸面孔,所谓以“他只抓住了认同感冲撞的一个方面、一个角度。大文化内部的认同冲突要远远多于大文化之间的认同冲突”,质疑亨廷顿提出的文明冲突理论...
评分http://www.douban.com/note/181102313/ 一、 首先不能说该书全无道理,至少它对现实政治里面的冲突是理顺了的,假若人们真的产生了对立感,一方感到深深的孤独和隔绝,好象成为了异在于某文明的杂质,这一方的文明必然会作为一个整体反抗外来的侵蚀和压迫,这既合乎此书的道...
评分三天以前,确切地说是2008年12月27日,美国著名政治学家,哈佛大学退休教授塞缪尔•亨廷顿在波士顿逝世,享年81岁。我看到这则新闻,谈不上什么特殊的感受,却想起了曾经翻看过的这本著述。 有些人是第一眼就可以给人留下深刻印象的,甚至说他的一言一行,某种言论足以影响...
评分亨廷顿这本文明的冲突是从一篇论文扩展而来,最早是发表在《外交》杂志上,发表不久就遭到了学界围攻。亨廷顿将其扩展为一本书,就是为了应对这些批评。如果读过亨廷顿其他著作的人,应该很容易发现,亨廷顿的这本书写得非常杂乱、不成系统,拼凑的痕迹非常明显。里面自我矛...
评分这本书的一些细节记不清楚了。多年之前读它,仅仅因为我爱慕的那个人是学国际关系的,还是哈佛大学的博士,我希望在这个领域尽可能的多知道一些,以便交流时可以稍微多些相关话题。其实,当男人爱你的时候,是因为你有年轻的容颜,青春的活力,而不是深邃的思想,可惜那时不...
Mr. Huntington's prophecies are turning into realities.
评分亨廷顿为冷战后的国际政治研究开辟了一个崭新且充满启发性的视角。有一章专门探讨了欧洲各国政治体制演变……真的读不下去……书中对于中国的很多讨论已经尽可能地避免了西方中心论的影响。在上世纪90年代就能做到这样真的非常不容易。可作者走得太匆匆,导致这本书没能更新,只有第一版,挺遗憾的。
评分亨廷顿为冷战后的国际政治研究开辟了一个崭新且充满启发性的视角。有一章专门探讨了欧洲各国政治体制演变……真的读不下去……书中对于中国的很多讨论已经尽可能地避免了西方中心论的影响。在上世纪90年代就能做到这样真的非常不容易。可作者走得太匆匆,导致这本书没能更新,只有第一版,挺遗憾的。
评分这书写得有点像金政委的风格。但是此书能够在西方国家引起巨大的思考和反响,结合当前贸易战,中美贸易战,涉港涉疆法案通过,我隐约看到了文明的冲突。西人亡我之心不死,警惕警惕。
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