{"product_id":"9781412938037","title":"International Relations and Communitarianism","description":"\u003cp\u003eCommunitarianism is an intriguing social theory that states community and the social bonds of family, traditional values, and education are the main building blocks of a new supranational global order. One of its strongest proponents, Amitai Etzioni, posits that the \"transnational threats facing humankind today are so overwhelming that soon all nations will experience a convergence of values and priorities, which will lay the groundwork for eventual global governance.\" The eight articles presented by the August 2005 issue of American Behavioral Scientist offer a fascinating and spirited dialogue regarding the concurrences and contradictions of communitarianism within the context of international relations. They tackle a range of topics first addressed in Etzioni's treatise From Empire to Community: A New Approach to International Relations, including:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEvaluating the European Union as a test case for communitarianism (Goldgeier) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow communitarianism predicts that U.S. hegemony will be transcended and how this fits in with the U.S.', particularly the Bush administration's, grand strategy (Hentz) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDoes Etizioni's nationalistic approach to U.S. foreign policy negate communitarianism's ethical problem-solving framework? (Falk) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCommunitarian Realism and the emergence of common norms through coping with global challenges (Gvosdev) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe four fatal flaws of Communitarianism (Gray) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhether sustainable economic or political integration is possible without global social assimilation taking place (Müllerson) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEtzioni's Response, including a quick summary of the communitarian paradigm (Etzioni) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA call by Ambassador Max M. Kampelman to bolster international community through the elimination of all nuclear weapons, the establishment of a national voluntary Civilian Conservation Corps for 18-21 year olds, and the creation of a new education incentive along the lines of the Roosevelt G.I. Bill of Rights.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis issue offers a balanced view of a much-disputed theory and belongs in the library of every political scientist , sociologist , and everyone interested in the state of the world around them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SAGE Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47046267764976,"sku":"9781412938037","price":26.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781412938037_p0.jpg?v=1763728175","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781412938037","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}