Huntington’s strategic assessment shaped both Carter and Reagan cold war policies

Evidence

Sam Huntington and I were close friends for most of our adult lives. We were graduate students at Harvard, and then young academics. Not only were we close friends, so were our wives. After Sam left Harvard for Columbia, he persuaded me to follow him there. Our paths separated when he chose to return to Harvard and I did not. But we still managed to write a book together and, later, he joined me in the White House, where he conducted a wide-ranging strategic assessment of the US-Soviet rivalry for global power that significantly influenced the policies of both the Carter and Reagan administrations. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 12