BOSTON (Reuters) - Political scientist Samuel Huntington, whose controversial book "The Clash of Civilizations" predicted conflict between the West and the Islamic world, has died at age 81, Harvard ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The “Kennan Sweepstakes,” they called it in the early 1990s. Decades earlier, the diplomat George Kennan had won lasting renown ...

Thirty years ago, Harvard Professor Samuel Huntington (who died in 2008) wrote The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, which accurately predicted the trajectory of the post-Cold ...

Samuel Huntington envisioned enduring hostility between Islam and the West. But that thesis hasn’t come to pass — and it overlooks the identity crisis that will truly define this century. Thirty years ...

Samuel Huntington got Ukraine wrong. That's what a casual reader of "The Clash of Civilizations?" -- published in Foreign Affairs 30 years ago this summer -- might think. Huntington was at the peak of ...

The controversy over the Ground Zero mosque has breathed new life into Samuel P. Huntington’s “Clash of Civilizations” thesis. In the early 1990s, Huntington argued that: The essential building block ...

In “The Fourth Turning Is Here” and “End Times,” the historian Neil Howe and the social scientist Peter Turchin use generational analysis and Big Data to predict the crises to come. By Francis ...

In 1993 the Harvard political scientist Samuel P. Huntington wrote an article in Foreign Affairs titled “The Clash of Civilizations?” In that article -- and subsequent book -- Huntington argued that ...

In April, the American public received two assessments of what went wrong with the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan twenty months earlier. The White House blamed the previous administration for the ...