TY - JOUR AU - Wilkinson, David PY - 1995/08/25 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - From Mesopotamia through Carroll Quigley to Bill Clinton: World Historical Systems, the Civilizationist, and the President JF - Journal of World-Systems Research JA - JWSR VL - 1 IS - 1 SE - Hegemonic Rivalry: Past and Future DO - 10.5195/jwsr.1995.59 UR - http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/59 SP - 4-33 AB - The noted comparative civilizationist and world-historical systems analyst Carroll Quigley, whose theorizing rested on the whole historical span from Mesopotamia to the 1960's, was a teacher well-remembered by his student Bill Clinton.  Quigley, by an intensive process of reduction, or rather idealization, of masses of historical data, derived a procedure for the diagnosis and therapy of ailing civilizations/world-systems, especially the one which he inhabited.  The coherent, persistent and personal motifs of the policy discourse and variant initiatives of his student, the President, bear more than a passing resemblance to the hopeful, idealistic, voluntaristic, intellectual, scientific, economistic, demi-materialistic propensities of the civilizationist and teacher. ER -