The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations

Huntington, Samuel P. The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957.

“In a classic work, Samuel P. Huntington challenges most of the old assumptions and ideas on the role of the military in society. Stressing the value of the military outlook for American national policy, Huntington has performed the distinctive task of developing a general theory of… More

The Common Defense: Strategic Programs in National Politics

Huntington, Samuel P. The Common Defense: Strategic Programs in National Politics. New York, Columbia University Press, 1961.

“Professor Robert Bowie of Harvard, who formerly headed the State Department’s policy planning staff, remarked a year ago that “we just don’t know much about … the interrelations of military policy, arms control, technology, foreign affairs, and foreign… More

Changing Patterns of Military Politics in National Politics

Ed. Huntington, Samuel. Changing Patterns of Military Politics in National Politics. New York: Free Press, 1962.

“This book is a useful, if rather uneven, addition to the growing literature of military politics. As the third volume of the International Yearbook of Political Behavior Research, it exhibits the various contributions which “the newer theoretical and empirical tendencies in… More

Political Power: USA/USSR

Brzezinsky, Zbigniew and Samuel P. Huntington. Political Power: USA/USSR. New York: Viking Press, 1964.

“This is a stimulating study by two creative and productive young political scientists. Professor Brzezinski is the author of several important works on Soviet and Eastern European politics. Professor Huntington is a leading specialist in the field of civil-military relationships.… More

Political Order in Changing Societies

Huntington, Samuel P. Political Order in Changing Societies. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968.

Huntington’s foundational work on political development was controversial when it first appeared, in the midst of the Vietnam War, because it argued that order itself was an important goal of developing societies, independent of the question of whether that order was democratic,… More

Authoritarian Politics in Modern Society: The Dynamics of Established One-Party Systems

Huntington, Samuel P. and Clement Moore. Authoritarian Politics in Modern Society: The Dynamics of Established One-Party Systems. New York: Basic Books, 1970.

“From the research program on Political Institutionalization and Social Change (Center for International Affairs at Harvard University) this study of communist and non-communist states sheds light upon the question: ‘How can one-party political systems adapt to socioeconomic… More

The Crisis of Democracy: Report on the Governability of Democracies to the Trilateral Commission

Crozier, Michael and Samuel Huntington and Joji Watanuki. The Crisis of Democracy: Report on the Governability of Democracies to the Trilateral Commission. New York: New York University Press, 1975.

“Is democracy in crisis? This question is being posed with increasing urgency by some of the leading statesmen of the West, by columnists and scholars and – if public opinion polls are to be trusted – even by the publics. In some respects, the mood of today is… More

No Easy Choice, Political Participation in Developing Countries

Huntington, Samuel P and Joan Nelson. No Easy Choice, Political Participation in Developing Countries. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976.

“Two leading writers on the processes of political development present a lucid analysis of the growth and desirability of political participation in developing countries and the ways it impedes (and is impeded by) the goals of socio-economic equity and economic growth. With an… More

American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony

Huntington, Samuel. American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981.

“This stunningly persuasive book examines the persistent, radical gap between the promise of American ideals and the performance of American politics. Samuel P. Huntington shows how Americans, throughout their history as a nation, have been united by the democratic creed of liberty,… More

The Strategic Imperative: New Policies for American Security

Ed. Huntington, Samuel P. The Strategic Imperative: New Policies for American Security. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982.

This product of Harvard’s new Program in National Security Studies is an interesting collection of essays which, in contrast to the Blechman volume (above), places comparatively greater emphasis on the need to strengthen U.S. defense capabilities and less on arms control. –… More

Living with Nuclear Weapons

Carnesale, Albert, Paul Doty, Stanley Hoffman, Samuel P. Huntington, Joseph D. Nye Jr., Scott Sagan, Derek Bok. Living with Nuclear Weapons. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983.

At the request of the President of Harvard University, six Harvard scholars have joined forces to write a book that lays out the facts about nuclear weapons for all concerned citizens who want to think through the nuclear dilemma for themselves. Living with Nuclear Weapons is written by… More

Global Dilemmas

Eds. Huntington, Samuel and Joseph Nye. Global Dilemmas. Cambridge: Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, 1985.

This collection, marking the 25th anniversary of Harvard’s Center for International Affairs, represents central issues for research in international affairs during this decade. Some issues carry over from themes that have been central to the Center’s research programs since… More

The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century

Huntington, Samuel P. The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late 20th Century. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.

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. This global democratic revolution is probably the most important political trend in the late twentieth century.… More

Understanding Political Development

Weiner, Myron and Samuel P. Huntington. Understanding Political Development. Boston: Waveland Press, 1994.

The central concern of the essays in this exceptional volume is whether the various theories and concepts that scholars have invented for understanding the enormous political changes that have taken place in developing countries have, indeed, proven useful. To that end, three major themes… More

The Clash of Civilizations

Huntington, Samuel. The Clash of Civilizations: and the Remaking of World Order. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.

The classic study of post-Cold War international relations, more relevant than ever in the post-9/11 world, with a new foreword by Zbigniew Brzezinski. Since its initial publication, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order has become a classic work of international… More

The Clash of Civilizations: The Debate

Ed. Huntington, Samuel P. The Clash of Civilizations: The Debate.  New York: Foreign Affairs, 1996.

According to Samuel Huntington’s seminal 1993 essay, The Clash of Civilizations, world politics is entering a new phase, in which the great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of international conflict will be cultural. Civilizations—the highest cultural groupings… More

Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress

Ed. Harrison, Lawrence and Samuel P. Huntington. Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress. New York: Basic Books, 2000.

“The Asian and Russian financial crises have helped fuel a growing debate over the impact of culture on economic performance. In this useful guide to the controversy, many authors hark back to Max Weber’s essay on the Protestant work ethic and the origins of capitalism in… More

Who Are We?: The Challenges to America’s National Identity

Huntington, Samuel P. Who Are We?: The Challenges to America’s National Identity. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005.

In his seminal work The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Samuel Huntington argued provocatively and presciently that with the end of the cold war, “civilizations” were replacing ideologies as the new fault lines in international politics. Now in his… More