"While his book The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order was basically set along an East-West axis, his recent book Who Are We? is largely set along a North-South axis. If one book is premised on the irreconcilable differences between hermetically sealed-off cultures internationally, the other book is premised on the allegedly unbridgeable intra-national gap between Anglo-Americans and Latinos. Huntington's evolving work demonstrates that Eurocentrist/Orientalist discourse is not monolithic; it has regional variations, even in the work of the same thinker."
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Samuel P. Huntington
Samuel Phillips Huntington (18 April 1927 – 24 December 2008) was an American political scientist, adviser, and academic. He spent more than half a century at Harvard University, where he was director of Harvard's Center for International Affairs and the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor. During the presidency of Jimmy Carter, Huntington was the White House Coordinator of Security Planning for the National Security Council. During the 1980s Apartheid era in South Africa, he served a
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