From Empire to Community: A New Approach to International Relations

Amitai Etzioni1403965358, 9781403965356, 9781403973399

Whether one favors the U.S. global projection of force or is horrified by it, the question stands – where do we go from here? What ought to be the new global architecture? Amitai Etzioni follows a third way, drawing on both neoconservative and liberal ideas, in this bold new look at international relations. He argues that a ”clash of civilizations” can be avoided and that the new world order need not look like America. Eastern values, including spirituality and moderate Islam, have a legitimate place in the evolving global public philosophy. Nation-states, Etzioni argues, can no longer attend to rising transnational problems, from SARS to trade in sex slaves to cybercrime. Global civil society does help, but without some kind of global authority, transnational problems will overwhelm us. The building blocks of this new order can be found in the war against terrorism, multilateral attempts at deproliferation, humanitarian interventions and new supranational institutions (e.g., the governance of the Internet). Basic safety, human rights, and global social issues, such as environmental protection, are best solved cooperatively, and Etzioni explores ways of creating global authorities robust enough to handle these issues as he outlines the journey from ”empire to community.”

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Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Contents……Page 8
Preface……Page 12
Introduction……Page 14
PART I: THE EMERGING GLOBAL NORMATIVE SYNTHESIS……Page 24
1 Basic Contours……Page 26
A Western Exclusive?……Page 28
The Good Society……Page 33
Liberty: Vacuum or Soft Order?……Page 36
From “Exporting” Halves to Service Learning……Page 38
The Civil Society: An Element of Autonomy and Social Order?……Page 40
Global Harbingers……Page 42
And the West Moves Eastward……Page 51
Particularism within Universalism……Page 56
Toward a More Authoritative Use of Power and a Softer Mix……Page 58
Limited but not Thin……Page 62
A Self-Restrained Approach……Page 63
Setting Limits……Page 66
Life’s Projects and Meanings……Page 69
Responding to a Moral and Transcendental Hunger……Page 73
4 Moral Dialogues……Page 80
5 Implications for American (and Western) Foreign Policy……Page 86
Implications of the Service Learning Approach……Page 87
First: Open and Detyrannize……Page 88
A Pro-Engagement Tilt……Page 95
Support Moderate Religious Groups and Republican Virtues, Not Merely Secular, Civil Ones……Page 97
Multilateralism or Community Building?……Page 101
Not Destiny, but Responsibility……Page 103
PART II: A NEW SAFETY ARCHITECTURE……Page 106
6 The War against Terrorism and Saddam’s Iraq: Contrasting Designs……Page 108
The War against Saddam’s Iraq: A Global Vietnamesque Effect……Page 110
The Antiterrorism Coalition: A Foundation for a Global Safety Authority……Page 116
Mission Appetite: Security First……Page 128
From Curbing Terrorism to Deproliferation……Page 131
An Antagonistic Partnership……Page 140
Pacification and Humanitarian Interventions……Page 141
Mission Appetite Revisited……Page 146
8 Curtailing National Sovereignty: For What?……Page 150
PART III: BEYOND GLOBAL SAFETY……Page 154
9 The Old System Is Overloaded……Page 156
Transnational Problems: A Quick Overview……Page 158
10 Global Civil Society: Its Scope and Limitations……Page 166
The Limits of Civil Society……Page 170
11 New Global Authorities……Page 174
Monofunctional, Transnational Governmental Networks……Page 175
Other Authorities?……Page 176
Marshall’s March of History……Page 180
Global Social Authorities……Page 183
The “Crowning” Issue……Page 185
Supranationality Defined……Page 192
Monofunctional Supranational Institutions……Page 193
The Extraordinary Prerequisites for Full Supranationality……Page 195
The European Union as a Test Case of Halfway Supranationality……Page 197
Facilitating Factors……Page 200
The Advantage of Being Global……Page 202
Regional Communities as Building Blocks……Page 204
Toward a Global Community……Page 208
A Nation-like Global State or a Sui Generis Design?……Page 211
A Reconstituted United Nations……Page 214
In Conclusion……Page 224
Notes……Page 228
C……Page 266
G……Page 267
I……Page 268
O……Page 269
T……Page 270
Z……Page 271
Acknowledgments……Page 272