Samuel P. Huntington
Samuel Phillips Huntington April 18, 1927 – December 24, 2008 was an American political scientist, adviser, in addition to academic. He spent more than half the century at Harvard University, where he was director of Harvard's Center for International Affairs & the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor.
During the Security Services.
He is best requested for 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 domination of the world. Huntington is credited with helping to sort American views on civilian-military relations, political development, and comparative government. According to the Open Syllabus Project, Huntington is the second near frequently cited author on college syllabi for political science courses.