> Davos Man was originally used by the Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington in a 2004 essay describing a new class of enriched globalists who are only loyal to themselves.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/24/trump-how-low-can-we-go/
#DavosMan !? I'm suprised #SamuelHuntington came up with something that doesn't make me retch: like South Africa as a "satisfied society"... #DanielWarner
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#SamuelHuntington
The 100th birthday of the "Human Rights Administration" president whose concern was:
> How do we return to the good old days when “Truman, Acheson, Forrestal, Marshall, Harriman, and Lovett” could unite on a policy of global intervention and domestic militarism as our “common purpose,” with no interference from the undisciplined rabble?
https://tiksi.net/channel/bsmall2?mid=cf2a2c1b-1ce2-4edd-b8cb-d6329d1a8b43
https://chomsky.info/priorities01/
#JimmyCarter #HumanRightsAdministration #TrilateralComiission #SamuelHuntington by #NoamChomsky
Non, le «choc des civilisations» n’aide pas à comprendre notre époque
Depuis le 7 octobre, les #idées du professeur américain #SamuelHuntington sont à nouveau vantées, au service d’un idéal de repli identitaire. Pourtant, ces thèses fragiles ont été largement démontées, sur le plan empirique comme théorique.
@bsmall2
Hello.
I have found the Wikipedia on #SamuelPHuntington.
His "Clash ..." book looks to have intellectually anchored #Islamophobia during the Bush/Cheney pillaging of Iraq.
Have you got recommendations or further context on #SamuelHuntington and arpartheid?
#FareedZakaria on the guy that used "shorthand" math-like equations to "show" South Africa as a "satisfied society."
> ... the greatest political scientist of the last half-century... Huntington is most famous for "The #ClashOfCivilizations but his scholarly reputation properly rests on his earlier work. His analysis of political order had immediate, real-world applications...
Chomsky laughs at the guy
https://fareedzakaria.com/columns/2009/01/02/sam-huntington-1927-2008
#sycophant #SamHuntington #SamualPHuntington #SamuelHuntington
> why is #SamHuntington still talking about consociationalism, when his own theory tells us it cannot happen? #Consociationalism .. involving negotiation among elites.. would give #SouthAfrica a democratic facade without changing the basic inequities of #apartheid. It would include Black faces in leadership, but would require massive repression of Black aspirations.. continue to restrict popular participation decision-making at all levels.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1987/11/5/mr-huntington-goes-to-pretoria-pperhaps/
#SamuelHuntington
> During the ’80s, a decade of deadly state-sanctioned violence, Huntington visited South Africa as an unofficial adviser to Botha’s government... To Huntington it was simply a theory, one he would just as easily write in a textbook as in a brief to Botha’s government. Today, it is what keeps the prospects of a child born in affluent Sandton a world apart from those of a child born in the impoverished township of Alexandra, just 18 minutes away.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/2/23/southafrica-apartheid-huntington/
> The attack on Dr. Huntington.. led by Serge Lang, a Yale mathematician.. on leave at Harvard, who.. gathered and sent to all Academy members over the past year what he calls ''a ton of documentation'' challenging Dr. Huntington's scholarly work, as ' #pseudoscience '' and ''nonsense.''.. he used mathematical equations as a ''shorthand way'' of summing up a complex argument rather than as a rigorous quantitative tool.
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/29/us/prominent-harvard-scholar-barred-by-science-academy.html
#SamuelHuntington #SergeLang #PoliticalScience
> .. various political institutions in different societies... hold the shifting forces and preferences tight, preventing disruption, violence and chaos.. if
such institutions.. bring out.. violence...state repression, police brutality... are we to address that there should be an extent to which these institutions must be restrained?.. where.. draw a line beyond whic.. are
unacceptable... practices?.. ambition... had [#SamuelHuntington] neglect such questions.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366596198_Book_Review_Political_Order_in_Changing_Societies_by_Samuel_P_Huntington
> The Trilateral Commission has issued one major book-length report, namely, The #CrisisOfDemocracy (Michel Crozier, #SamuelHuntington, and Joji Watanuki, 1975). Given the intimate connections between the Commission and the #CarterAdministration, the study is worth careful attention, as an indication of the thinking that may well lie behind its domestic policies, as well as the policies undertaken in other #IndustrialDemocracies in the coming years.
#Orwellian uses of #Democracy and #Crisis
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