Samuel Phillips Huntington (April 18, 1927 – December 24, 2008) was an American political scientist, adviser, and academic. He spent more than half a century at Harvard University, where he was director of Harvard's Center for International Affairs and the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor. He is best known for his 1993 theory, the *Clash of Civilizations*, of a post-Cold War new world order. **Source**: [Samuel P. Huntington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_P._Huntington) on Wikipedia.