Samuel P. Huntington

He was a prominent American political scientist of the modern era, teaching at Harvard for nearly half a century and serving as a government policy advisor. Rising to prominence through his theories on national security and civilian control, he was also involved in strategizing for the Vietnam War during the Cold War. Published shortly after the end of the Cold War, his book *The Clash of Civilizations* predicted that intense conflicts would occur along religious and cultural fault lines (particularly between the West and the Islamic/Sinic worlds) instead of traditional ideological divides, leaving a decisive impact on 21st-century international political perspectives.

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