After Twenty Years: The Future of the Third Wave

Issue Date October 1997
Volume 8
Issue 4
Page Numbers 3-12
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About the Author

Samuel P. Huntington was Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor and director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard. His many books include The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century (1991) and The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996).

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