Native Son: Samuel Huntington Defends the Homeland
2004; Council on Foreign Relations; Volume: 83; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/20033980
ISSN2327-7793
AutoresAlan Wolfe, Samuel P. Huntington,
Tópico(s)American Constitutional Law and Politics
ResumoIn course of a remarkably distinguished academic career, Samuel Huntington has demonstrated a steadfast commitment to realism. Distaste for sentimentality is certainly on display in his best-known book, The Clash of Civilizations and Remaking of World Order (which originated as an article in this magazine before its publication in 1996). It has also been characteristic of his analysis of U.S. domestic politics. The heroes of The Soldier and State, his 1964 book on civil-military relations, are neo-Hamiltonians such as Secretary of State Elihu Root and naval strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan, members of the first important American social group, as he describes them, whose political philosophy more or less con sciously borrowed and incorporated elements of professional military ethic. In American Politics: The Promise ofDisharmony (1981), Huntington identifies four moments of creedal passion in American history: Revolutionary era, ages ofJacksonianism and Pro gressivism, and 1960s. During these periods, he argues, Americans' unrealistic expectation of moral perfectibility pre vented their leaders from doing right thing. Throughout his career, Huntington has rejected ideology in favor of down to-earth practicality, drawing cries of protest from critics, mostly on left, who accuse him of cold-minded moral indifference and complicity with powers that be. Few subjects call out for Huntington's realism as much as immigration does. Since 1965 Immigration Act, which
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