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\"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 world?What should American policies be toward recently liberated countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan, or rogue states like North Korea and Iran? When should the United States undertake humanitarian intervention abroad? What must be done to protect America from nuclear terrorism? The author asserts that providing basic security must be the first priority in all foreign policy considerations, even ahead of efforts to democratize. He sets out essential guidelines for a foreign policy that makes sense in the real world, builds on moral principles, and creates the possibility of establishing positive relationships with Muslim nations and all others.Etzioni has considered the issues deeply and for many years. His conclusions fall into no neat categories-neither \"liberal\" nor \"conservative\"-for he is guided not by ideology but by empirical evidence and moral deliberation. His proposal rings with the sound of reason, and this important book belongs on the reading list of every concerned leader, policy maker, and voter in America.
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Avoiding War with China
Are the United States and China on a collision course? In response to remarks made by Donald Trump's secretary of state, China's state-run newspaperGlobal Timesasserted, \"Unless Washington plans to wage a large-scale war in the South China Sea, any other approaches to prevent Chinese access to the [disputed] islands will be foolish.\" Some experts contend that conflict is inevitable when an established power does not make sufficient room for a rising power. In this timely new work, renowned professor of international relations Amitai Etzioni explains why this would be disastrous and points to the ways the two nations can avoid war.
The United States is already preparing for a war with China, Etzioni reveals. However, major differences of opinion exist among experts on the extent of military commitment required, and no plan has been formally reviewed by either Congress or the White House, nor has any been subjected to a public debate. Etzioni seeks here to provide a context for this long overdue discussion and to explore the most urgent questions: How aggressive is China? How powerful is it? Does it seek merely regional influence, or regional dominance, or to replace the United States as the global superpower?
The most effective means of avoiding war, several experts argue, requires integrating China into the prevailing rule-based, liberal, international order. Etzioni spells out how this might be achieved and considers what can be done to improve the odds such an integration will take place. Others call for containing or balancing China, and Etzioni examines the risk posed by our alliances with various countries in the region, particularly India and Pakistan.
With insight and clarity Etzioni presents our best strategy to reduce tension between the two powers, mapping out how the United States can accommodate China's regional rise without undermining its core interests, its allies, and the international order.
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.
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Reclaiming Patriotism
Amitai Etzioni has made his reputation by transcending unwieldy, and even dangerous, binaries such as left/right or globalism/nativism. In his new book, Etzioni calls for nothing less than a social transformation-led by a new social movement-to save our world's democracies, currently under threat in today's volatile and profoundly divided political environments.
The United States, along with scores of other nations, has seen disturbing challenges to the norms and institutions of our democratic society, particularly in the rise of exclusive forms of nationalism and populism. Focusing on nations as the core elements of global communities, Etzioni envisions here a patriotic movement that rebuilds rather than splits communities and nations.
Beginning with moral dialogues that seek to find common ground in our values and policies, Etzioni sets out a path toward cultivating a \"good\" form of nationalism based on this shared understanding of the common good. Working to broaden civic awareness and participation, this approach seeks to suppress neither identity politics nor special interests in its efforts to lead us to work productively with others.
Reclaiming Patriotism offers a hopeful and pragmatic solution to our current crisis in democracy-a patriotic movement that could have a transformative, positive impact on our foreign policy, the world order, and the future of capitalism.
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How Patriotic is the Patriot Act?
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 to curtail to give authorities an even freer hand.' This book will prove a useful guide for citizens looking for a thought provoking, well-reasoned and sober analysis of one of the hot button issues of our time.
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HOW ABOUT A BILL OF RESPONSIBILITIES?
The Founding Fathers did not bother to write down a bill of particulars for our social responsibilities to match the Bill of Rights. In the days of closely knit communities and religiously committed individuals, one's responsibilities were all too clear, it was rights that needed enshrining. However, as public opinion polls keep reminding us, it seems we have come full circle: Rights are now taken for granted while responsibilities are shirked. A study has shown that young Americans expect to be tried before a jury of their peers but are rather reluctant to serve on one. A survey of youth conducted by the People for the American Way found that when asked what was special about the United States, young people responded: \"Individualism and the fact that it is a democracy and you can do whatever you want.\" And: \"We really don't have any limits.\" Even more striking is the general deterioration of the social and moral fabric of our country. The extent to which the American fabric is frayed is highlighted by a recent study that compared the problems high school teachers reported. In the 1940s the top five problems identified by teachers were: talking out of turn, making noise, cutting in line, littering and chewing gum. In 1992: drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide and rape headed the list.
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BALANCING ACT DON'T SACRIFICE THE COMMON GOOD TO PERSONAL `RIGHTS'
It is no accident that the issue of gun sweeps in Chicago's public housing recently caught the attention of the president of the United States and the national press. The question of the legitimacy of those sweeps has profound implications for the future of civility in American society. We have become so inured to violence that the 15 shootings and eight fatalities during one weekend in the Robert Taylor Homes' neighborhood do not faze us. We tend to forget that in civil societies children can play outside, one and all walk the streets with impunity, and gunfire is the exception not the rule. Indeed, if anything resembling such conditions as are now common in inner-cities developed in one of our fancy suburbs, SWAT teams, if not the National Guard, would be called out. The poor and largely black people of the Robert Taylor Homes are treated as \"second-class\" citizens, not because of the gun sweeps, as Congressman Henry Gonzalez (D-Texas) put it, but because they are denied the most elementary protection any state owes to its citizens: protection of life and limb.
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MAKING THE PERSONAL CONNECTION ON-LINE COMMUNITIES CAN ALLOW PEOPLE TO BUILD REPUTATIONS AND TRUST AND FOSTER INTIMACY, MUCH LIKE OFF-LINE GROUPS. HOWEVER, THEY DO SO IN DIFFERENT WAYS AND, ABOVE ALL, CAN REACH MANY MORE PEOPLE, DAY OR NIGHT, RAIN OR SHINE
For instance, the common argument that virtual communities cannot do what real communities can is analogous to the argument, made when Model T cars first rolled off assembly lines, that cars cannot do what horses can: become your friends. Both modes of transportation, though, get you there, and cars command some obvious advantages of their own.
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