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Samuel P. Huntington and the Ambiguities of American Power

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AuthorToby Zanin
Date01 December 2009
DOI10.1177/002070200906400416
Published date01 December 2009
Subject MatterBlasts from the Past
Toby Zanin is a writer-researcher with an interest in US foreign policy. Most recently,
he assisted Stephen Clarkson with the publication of
My Life as a Dame: The Personal
and Political in the Writings of Christina McCall
(Anansi, 2008).
1 In Philip Lopate,
Notes On Sontag
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009),
96-97.
2 In Susan Sontag, “The art of fiction,” no. 143,
Paris Review
, 1995, 196.
It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in the state of
concluding: a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful
phrase-making. - Susan Sontag1
Nothing is my last word on anything. - Henry James2
He may not have ultimately enjoyed the last word on anything, but during a
long and often controversial career, Samuel Huntington (1927-2008)
certainly did enjoy the exercise of initiating and often shaping the vistas of
new debates on a wide array of contentious policy issues, from challenging
the orthodo xies as sociated with the proper management of US civilian-
military relations, to undercutting the virtues associated with the arguments
BLASTS FROM THE PAST
Toby Zanin
Samuel P. Huntington
and the ambiguities of
American power
| International Journal | Autumn 2009 | 1109 |

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