ABSTRACT
In contrast to Edward Luttwak, Samuel Huntington is an intellectual of statecraft who specializes in questions of governance, particularly the problems of hegemonic governance. Educated at Yale (BA, 1946), the University of Chicago (MA, 1948) and Harvard (PHD, 1951), Huntington has spent his life within the elite circles of the Ivy League academic and foreign policy establishment. A neoconservative advisor to Democrats like Hubert Humphrey and Jimmy Carter, Huntington was retained by Harvard to work in the Department of Government. Co-founder of the journal Foreign Policy, associated at various times with Columbia, Oxford and Stanford universities, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission, Huntington has served as a consultant to various agencies of the US government and worked as coordinator of security planning at the National Security Council (1977-78) when that agency was headed by his one-time colleague and coauthor Zbigniew Brzezinski. Huntington has a long history of association with the Center for International Affairs (CFIA) at Harvard, a research institute established in 1957 by Robert Bowie (chief policy planner in the State Department of John Foster Dulles) together with McGeorge Bundy and Henry Kissinger.1 Through its research fellowships, the CFIA was designed to attract and cultivate an array of influential intellectuals from around the globe who subsequently would serve as a worldwide network of informal influence for Harvard and its “imperial” ideas of good government. Huntington served as associate director (197378) and subsequently as director (1978-89) of CFIA. He is currently the director of the John Olin Institute of Strategic Studies at Harvard.
