Samuel P. Huntington

Political Order in Changing Societies

now-classic examination of the development of viable political institutions in emerging nations is a major and enduring contribution to modern political analysis. In a new Forew...

The third wave: democratization in the late twentieth century

Between 1974 and 1990 more than thirty countries in southern Europe, Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe shifted from authoritarian to democratic systems of government....

The clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order

Transnational Organizations in World Politics

These twelve organizations appear to have little in common. They are public and private, national and international, profit-making and charitable, religious and secular, civil a...

The Clash of Civilizations?

Huntington contends that culturally based "civilizations" exert stronger holds on people than economic systems, levels of development, or even political systems. Clearly, he vie...