Cultural America is under siege. And as the Soviet experience illustrates, ideology is a weak glue to hold together people otherwise lacking… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
In the 19th century it was basically nationality and people trying to define their nationalism and create states which would reflect their… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Since the revolution of the 18th century, America has basically had an ideology of liberal democracy and constitutionalism. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Nationalism is a central ideology for people who are trying to establish their own states in which they can play a dominant… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
As far as ideology or political beliefs are concerned, countries are very different. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Two significant developments in the past several decades have been the collapse of communism as an ideology and the general acceptance, in… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
When you mention the word ideology, everyone has communism in the back of their minds, which was an entirely well formulated ideology… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Countries will cooperate with each other, and are more likely to cooperate with each other when they share a common culture, as is most… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share
“The prevalence of anti-patriotic attitudes among liberal intellectuals led some of them to warn their fellow liberals of the consequences of such attitudes for… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share
Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share
These transnationalists have little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national governments as residues from… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share
Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring states, and… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share
Hispanics speak Spanish or Portuguese, which are languages we Americans are familiar with, so it doesn't seem to pose the same types of problems… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share
Israel has military capabilities including nuclear weapons, far surpassing any other power in the Middle East, but it's a small country. The rest of… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share
America doesn't border on Muslim countries. European countries do and that seems to be a fundamental difference. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share
Except under rare circumstances, I don't write responses to criticism. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share
Religiosity distinguishes America from most other Western societies. Americans are also overwhelmingly Christian, which distinguishes them from many non-Western peoples. Their religiosity leads Americans… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share
Both sides are divided and Western countries collaborate with Muslim countries and vice versa. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share
Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share
What are the prospects for an Arab state serving a leading role comparable to the role that other states place in other regions? There… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share
Obviously there are divisions within the West and divisions within Islam - there are different sects, different communities, different countries. So neither one is… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share
