In the coming decades, questions of identity, meaning cultural heritage, language, and religion will play a central role in politics.
Samuel P. HuntingtonThe larger society has to recognize some degree of autonomy for the minority: the right to practice their own religion and way of life and to some extent their language.
Samuel P. HuntingtonPower remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate.
Samuel P. HuntingtonThese transnationalists have little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national governments as residues from the past whose only useful function is to facilitate the elite's global operations
Samuel P. HuntingtonWhat are the prospects for an Arab state serving a leading role comparable to the role that other states place in other regions? There is no obvious candidate. Saudi Arabia has the money but a relatively small population. Iraq was a great potential leader, as a sizable country with great oil resources and a highly educated population, but it went off in the wrong direction.
Samuel P. Huntington