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chris_J2
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: From Brisbane, Au.
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 Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 8:38 pm Post subject: RIP Samuel Huntington |
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Influential US political scientist Samuel Huntington, author of The Clash of Civilisations and a professor at Harvard University, has died at the age of 81, the university announced on its website.
Professor Huntington, who retired from teaching in 2007 after 58 years at Harvard, died on December 24 in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, the university said. It did not give the cause of his death.
He was co-author or editor of 17 books, mostly on US government, democratisation, military politics, civil-military relations and political development.
He was perhaps best known for believing that in a post-Cold War world violent conflict would come from cultural and religious differences, and not ideological differences between nation states.
This view was fully explained in the 1996 book The Clash of Civilisations and the Remaking of World Order, which has been translated into 39 languages.
Professor Huntington was "one of the giants of American intellectual life of the last half century," said one of his colleagues, Robert Putnam at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Another colleague, Harvard professor Stephen Rosen, said Professor Huntington "combined a fierce loyalty to his principles and friends with a happy eagerness to be confronted with sharp opposition to his own views." |
Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/28/2455657.htm |
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ManintheMiddle
Joined: 20 Oct 2008
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RIP indeed. His mind was great and his demeanor fitting of a professor, which is more than can be said for many of his younger colleagues at other institutions today.
He mentored Fareed Zacharia, author of the fantastic bestseller, The Post-American World, which the latter readily acknowledged.
Generally, Harvard only hires level-headed academics to its faculty, which is again true in the case of Huntington. |
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