Editing Samuel P. Huntington (section)

==Academic career==
Huntington was a member of Harvard's department of government from 1950 until he was denied tenure in 1959.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5408079.ece | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100525005440/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5408079.ece | url-status=dead | archive-date=May 25, 2010 | location=London | work=The Times | title=Professor Samuel Huntington author of The Clash of Civilizations | date=December 29, 2008}}</ref> Along with [[Zbigniew Brzezinski]], who had also been denied tenure, he moved to [[Columbia University]] in New York. From 1959 to 1962 he was an associate professor of government at Columbia, where he was also associate director of their [[Institute of War and Peace Studies]].<ref name="nytimes"/> Huntington was invited to return to Harvard with tenure in 1963 and remained there until his death. He was elected a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1965.<ref name="AAAS">{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter H|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterH.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=22 April 2011}}</ref> Huntington and [[Warren Demian Manshel]] co-founded and co-edited ''[[Foreign Policy]]''. Huntington stayed as co-editor until 1977.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/02/samuel-huntington-81-political-scientist-scholar/ |title=Samuel Huntington, 81, political scientist, scholar &#124; Harvard Gazette |publisher=News.harvard.edu |date= February 5, 2009|access-date=2012-08-17}}</ref>

Huntington's first major book was ''[[The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations]]'' (1957), which was highly controversial when it was published, but at present is regarded as the most influential book on American [[civil-military relations]].<ref>Michael C. Desch. 1998. "Soldiers, States, and Structures: The End of the Cold War and Weakening U.S. Civilian Control." Armed Forces & Society. 24(3): pages 389–405.</ref><ref>Michael C. Desch. 2001. ''Civilian Control of the Military: The Changing Security Environment''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.</ref><ref>Peter D. Feaver. 1996. "An American Crisis in Civilian Control and Civil-Military Relations?" ''The Tocqueville Review''. 17(1): 159.</ref> He became prominent with his ''[[Political Order in Changing Societies]]'' (1968), a work that challenged the conventional opinion of [[modernization]] theorists, that economic and social progress would produce stable democracies in recently [[Decolonization|decolonized]] countries. He also was co-author of ''[[The Crisis of Democracy: On the Governability of Democracies]]'', a report issued by the [[Trilateral Commission]] in 1976. In 1977, his friend [[Zbigniew Brzezinski|Brzezinski]]—who had been appointed [[National Security Advisor (United States)|national security adviser]] in the administration of [[Jimmy Carter]]—invited Huntington to become [[White House]] coordinator of security planning for the [[United States National Security Council|National Security Council]]. He served in this position until the end of 1978.

Huntington served as an instructor at [[MIT Seminar XXI]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://semxxi.mit.edu/about/messages/from-the-director |title=From the Director: September, 2015 |last=Art |first=Robert |date=September 1, 2015 |website=MIT Seminar XXI |publisher=[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]}}</ref> He continued to teach undergraduates until his retirement in 2007.