Samuel Huntington, Keynote Speaker

Text of Professor Huntington's Keynote Address

SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON is the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University, where he is also Director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and Chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies in the Center for International Affairs. His newest book, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Simon and Schuster) was published in the fall of 1996 and is being translated into 22 other languages.

Born on April 18, 1927, in New York City, he received his B.A. from Yale University in 1946, his M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1948 and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1951. He taught at Harvard from 1950 through 1958 and then was Associate Director of the Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University from 1959 to 1962, when the returned to Harvard. He served as Chairman of the Harvard Department of Government from 1967 to 1969 and from 1970 to 1971. He became Associate Director of the Center for International Affairs in 1973 and was Director from 1978 to 1989. He became Director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies in 1989 and Chairman of the Harvard Academy in 1996.

During 1977 and 1978 he served at the White House as Coordinator of Security Planning for the National Security Council. In 1970 he was a founder of the quarterly journal, Foreign Policy, and was its co-editor until 1977.

He has been a Research Associate of the Brookings Institution, a Faculty Fellow of the Social Science Research Council, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences, a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. and Senior Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London. He was a member of the Council of the American Political Science Association (1969-1971), the Vice President (1984-1985) and the President (1986-1987) of the Association, a member of the Presidential Task Force on International Development (1969-1970), a member of the Commission on United States-Latin American Relations (1974-1976), chairman of the Defense and Arms Control Study Group of the Democratic Advisory Council (1974-1976), a member of the Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy (1986-1988) and member of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy (1995-1997).

Dr. Huntington is the author or editor of over a dozen books and ninety scholarly articles. He has studied, taught and written widely in three principal areas:

1. Military politics, strategy and civil-military relations, where his books include: The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations, 1957; The Common Defense: Strategy Programs in National Politics, 1961; Changing Patterns of Military Politics (editor), 1962; The Strategic Imperative: New Policies for American Security (editor), 1982; Living with Nuclear Weapons (co-author), 1983; and Reorganizing America’s Defense (co-editor), 1985.

2. American and comparative politics, where his books include: Political Power: USA/USSR (co-author), 1964; The Crisis of Democracy (co-author), 1975; American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony, 1981 (winner of the Association of American Publishers Social Science Award); and Global Dilemmas (co-editor), 1985.

3. Political development and the politics of less developed countries, where his books include: Political Order in Changing Societies, 1968; Authoritarian Politics in Modern Society: The Dynamics of Established One-Party Systems (co-editor), 1970; No Easy Choice: Political Participation in Developing Countries (co-author), 1976; Understanding Political Development (co-editor), 1986; and The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century, 1991 (winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order).

• Sponsored by The Marianne Lannon Lopat Memorial Lecture Fund. This fund was established by Dr. and Mrs. Stanley P. Lopat (Lucy-Anne Epeneter '48) in memory of their daughter, Marianne '73, who died in 1980. Marianne Lopat worked in Washington D.C as a legislative assistant and went on to serve as political assistant to President Gerald Ford during the 1978 congressional elections. President Ford was the first Lopat Lecturer to speak at Colorado College.