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Summary: Ahead of his times - even now
Review: I read this book while I was in the university, and it still has things to say ten years later. I am an Asian, so I feel qualified to say that Huntington's ideas were not racist. If anything, he saw things very clearly. He has a good grasp of how politics work in non-western societies. He also clearly understood the needs of under developed Asian societies. He understood better than writers supposedly sympathetic to Asians (i.e. Naom Chomsky and his intellectual cronies)how political stability is the most important political issue of the day. (Just a note on the Clash of Civilisation. It was widely mocked when it first came out in the early 1990's, but after 9/11 it was proved that what he wrote was right and - as usual - perscient.)
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Summary: 30 years on
Review: this is still Huntington's best work. The bredth of his erudition is astounding, the clarity of his analysis second to none. Too bad he had to soil his reputation with all that later nonsense about clashing civilizations.
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Summary: Huntington is old school
Review: To be fair, Huntington is a great writer. However, some of his ideas border on racism. I would read Huntington to understand how people in the social sciences thought 50 years ago, but I wouldn't take his broad general truths too seriously.
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Summary: Huntington is old school
Review: To be fair, Huntington is a great writer. However, some of his ideas border on racism. I would read Huntington to understand how people in the social sciences thought 50 years ago, but I wouldn't take his broad general truths too seriously.
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