Amitai Etzioni: 22 books
The New Normal
Finding a Balance Between Individual Rights and the Common Good
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Amitai Etzioni argues that societies must find a way to balance individual rights and the common good. This point of balance may change as new technologies develop, the natural and international environments change, and new social forces arise. Some believe the United States may be unduly short-changing...
The Spirit of Community
Rights, Responsibilities, and the Communitarian Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
America needs to move from me to we.
In The Spirit of Community, renowned professor and former White House Fellow Amitai Etzioni, the founder of the Communitarian movement, lays out a blueprint for how in the 1990s Americans can move forward—together.
The Spirit of Community calls for a reawakening...
Security First
For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Rarely have more profound changes in American foreign policy been called for than today,” begins Amitai Etzioni in the preface to this book. Yet Etzioni’s concern is not to lay blame for past mistakes but to address the future: What can now be done to improve U.S. relations with the rest of the...
by Amitai Etzioni
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
In this book, Amitai Etzioni, public intellectual and leading proponent of communitarian values, defends the view that no society can flourish without a shared obligation to “the common good.” Rejecting claims made by some liberal thinkers that it is not possible to balance individual rights with...
From Empire to Community
A New Approach to International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
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...
Hot Spots
American Foreign Policy in a Post-Human-Rights World
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
There are important reasons for the distinct yet significant course adjustments in American and Western foreign policy, which is currently focused on the Middle Eastern and Chinese "hot spots." In early 2012, the United States "pivoted" to make the Far East its military and strategic...
Political Unification Revisited
On Building Supranational Communities
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2001
Can independent nations unify politically? Amitai Etzioni raised this searching question in his seminal 1965 book, Political Unification: A Comparative Study of Leaders and Forces. In this revised edition—now with an extensive new introduction—Etzioni convincingly argues that the experiment of...
Happiness is the Wrong Metric
Liberal Communitarianism in Response to Populism
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2017
This timely book addresses the conflict between globalism and nationalism. It provides a liberal communitarian response to the rise of populism occurring in many democracies. The book highlights the role of communities next to that of the state and the market. It spells out the policy implications...
Avoiding War with China
Two Nations, One World
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
The United States could respond to China’s increasing regional and global assertiveness in ways that would spiral into antagonism and conflict. In this short book, renowned scholar Amitai Etzioni lays out an alternative approach that takes seriously concerns about growing Chinese power, but suggests ways of dealing with it that maximize cooperation and minimize unnecessary conflict.
by Amitai Etzioni
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This collection of essays by renowned scholar Amitai Etzioni aims to provoke reconsiderations of basic assumptions of foreign policy by students, academics and practitioners.
With chapters focusing on the Middle East, China and the EU, as well as articles with a more global focus, the book...
Moral Dimension
Toward a New Economics
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Blending elements of psychology, philosophy, and sociology with economics, Etzioni presents a bold new vision of the social sciences - one which proposes that broader moral, social and political concerns modify economic behaviour and shape individual decision-making. In establishing the necessitary...
How Patriotic is the Patriot Act?
Freedom Versus Security in the Age of Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
In this short book, Etzioni, the well-known and respected public intellectual and communitarian thinker, charts a middle course, or third way 'between those who are committed to shore up our liberties but blind to the needs of public security, as well as those who never met a right they are not willing...
by Amitai Etzioni
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
For thoughtful readers--and not particularly lawyers or scholars--engaged in the issues of the day who want something other than "easy" answers from right or left. Renowned sociologist Etzioni addresses key issues of terrorism, drone wars, TSA scanners, DNA banks, surveillance, privacy,...
by Amitai Etzioni
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Race, age, political affiliation, country of origin, native languageùtoo often Americans define themselves, and are defined, by the differences that separate them. But if the 2008 presidential campaign has taught us anything, it is that we as a people want to look beyond these divisions to the values...
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