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Who was Huntington advising during the 1980s Apartheid era in South Africa?

  • Mandela's Freedom Fighters

  • P. W. Botha's Security Services

  • Anti-Apartheid Protesters

  • None of the above

Answer

In the 1980s, during South Africa's apartheid era, Samuel Huntington advised P. W. Botha's Security Services. Huntington was a professor of government at Harvard University and a leading thinker on international relations. He was known for his theory of "clash of civilizations," which argued that the world would be divided into competing cultural blocs.
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