United States.jpg)
Samuel P. Huntington
said
The rewards of an increasingly integrated global economy have brought forth a new global elite.
— "Dead Souls: The Denationalization of the American Elite", The National Interest, No. 75 (Spring 2004), pp. 5-18
Samuel P. Huntington
American political scientist (1927–2008)
- Fame60.5
- Momentum0.0
- Academics rank#243
Source-basedStable
- Fame60.5
- Momentum0.0
- Academics rank#243
- Wikipedia17K
Lived 1927–2008, aged 81United States
Summary
Updated 2026-06-08
He predicted the future would pit civilization against civilization, not state against state — and that Islam and the West were on a collision course. The thesis landed in 1993 like a ticking clock, and it's still assigned, debated, and cited more than almost any other political scientist in American classrooms.
Biography
About
Samuel Phillips Huntington spent most of his career at Harvard, where he directed the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and held an endowed chair. During the Carter administration, he left campus briefly to coordinate security planning for the National Security Council. In 1993 he published the "Clash of Civilizations" theory, arguing that post–Cold War conflict would unfold along cultural fault lines rather than ideological ones, with Islamic civilization posed as the chief challenge to Western dominance. The framework became one of the most disputed ideas in modern political scien…
Voice
In their own words
Sourced, dated quotes from Samuel P. Huntington
Samuel P. Huntington
said
For almost four centuries, the Anglo-Protestant culture of the founding settlers has been the central and the lasting component of American identity.
— "Dead Souls: The Denationalization of the American Elite", The National Interest, No. 75 (Spring 2004), pp. 5-18
Samuel P. Huntington
said
Millions of immigrants and their children achieved wealth, power and status in American society precisely because they assimilated themselves into the prevailing American culture.
— "Dead Souls: The Denationalization of the American Elite", The National Interest, No. 75 (Spring 2004), pp. 5-18
Samuel P. Huntington
said
Religiosity distinguishes America from most other Western societies. Americans are also overwhelmingly Christian, which distinguishes them from many non-Western peoples.
— "Dead Souls: The Denationalization of the American Elite", The National Interest, No. 75 (Spring 2004), pp. 5-18
Samuel P. Huntington
said
We Americans" face a substantive problem of national identity epitomized by the subject of this sentence. Are we a "we," one people or several?
— Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity (2004), p. 9
Gallery
Photos
2 images · refresh overdue
Where to find them
Platforms
No platforms connected yet.
By the numbers
Score breakdown
The six component signals behind the Fame score, and their ranks across the leaderboards.
Fame
Stable60.5
Composite of search demand, mentions, audience & graph footprint.
Score components
Historical24.6
Source confidence60.0
Completeness70.0
Receipts
Sources
- WikidataHigh confidencewikidata · wikidata.org
- WikipediaHigh confidencewikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
- Pantheon 2.0High confidencedatabase · pantheon.world
Discover
You might know
Similar profiles worth watching
.jpg?width=1200)
.jpg?width=1200)
