Quotes from Samuel P. Huntington

Global politics remains extremely complex and countries have different interests, which will also lead them to make what might seem as rather bizarre friends and allies.

Quite obviously power will continue to play a central role in global politics as it always does. But usually there is something else.

Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate.

There has been an Irish lobby that has impacted U.S. foreign policy for a century and a half, and at times made our relations with Great Britain very difficult. Other comparable lobbies exist.

There are lots of conflicts going on in the Middle East. It is unclear as to which country will emerge, if any, as the dominant or hegemonic power in the Middle East.

Maybe Iraq will come back and become the dominant power among Arab countries. That seems to me as conceivable.

Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.

The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.

First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.

In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.

And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?

And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies in particular develop economically.

I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction.

They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society.

The larger society has to recognize some degree of autonomy for the minority: the right to practice their own religion and way of life and to some extent their language.

When you have increased migration of peoples and ethnic and religious minorities, you develop a set of rules and language the larger society can accept and the minority community can accept.

Many more people in the world are concerned about sports than human rights.

It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in. But will Japan and other Asian countries be willing to join in the containment of China?

We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.

Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.

We have to know who we are before we can know what our interests are.

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