In the coming decades, questions of identity, meaning cultural heritage, language, and religion will play a central role in politics. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Certainly there are various trans-Islamic political movements, which try to appeal to Muslims in all societies. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Quite obviously power will continue to play a central role in global politics as it always does. But usually there is something… — 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
The question really is what will be the central focus of global politics in the coming decades and my argument is that… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Global politics remains extremely complex and countries have different interests, which will also lead them to make what might seem as rather… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
These transnationalists have little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national governments as… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
“It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic.… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Obviously Pakistan and the U.S. are very different countries, but we have common geopolitical interests in preventing communist take over in Afghanistan… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
“On January 3, 1992, a meeting of Russian and American scholars took place in the auditorium of a government building in Moscow.… — 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
