A few central quotes:
“Huntington was instinctively a conservative because he valued an ordered society, but he also championed conservatism as a necessary instrument to defend liberal institutions against communism. In many of his books he attacked idealistic liberals for holding such institutions to impossible, utopian standards that undermined their effectiveness in the world.”
and:
“An iconoclast to the core, Huntington never threw his lot in with left or right. He was too statist to be a libertarian, too realist to embrace neoconservatism, and too sympathetic to nationalism, religion and the military to identify with liberal Democrats. As a conservative Democrat, then, he is an intellectual rarity.”
An interesting thinker (wikipedia page here). His Political Order In Changing Societies challenged modernization theory.
Related On This Site: Stanley Kurtz sticks close to Huntington and points out Fukuyama’s Hegelian influence…From The Hoover Institution: Stanley Kurtz On Francis Fukuyama and Samuel Huntington…Francis Fukuyama after Huntington’s death explains some disagreement…From The American Interest Online: Francis Fukuyama On Samuel Huntington
