Via the Boston Globe: Samuel Huntington, author, Harvard political scientist; at 81
One of the nation’s preeminent political scientists, a longstanding professor at Harvard University, and founder of the influential journal Foreign Policy, Dr. Huntington died Wednesday at an Oak Bluffs nursing home. He was 81.
“He was a man of enormous influence,” said his longtime friend and colleague, Henry Rosovsky. “I think he was one of the really great figures in the field.”
Huntington was one of the true giants of political science, writing multiple major works over a multi-decade span. His first major work was The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations (published in 1957) and is a classic on the subject of civil-military relations and is still considered relevant. In the 1960s he wrote Political Order in Changing Societies (published in 1968) which was a major work in the area of political development, which also remains relevant even today. He remained an active scholar throughout the 1970s and 1980s, but the next work that made, at least in my experience, a major impact was The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century (1991), and he went on to publish the work that he probably most well-known for in the general populace, The Clash of Civilizations (1996).
May he rest in peace.
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