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A Communitarian Future

What Can the EU Experience Teach Us?

George Washington University

Amitai Etzioni has provided a vision for developing a future global civil society. If his communitarian approach has any hope, its starting place will be modern Europe. The continent’s bloody rivalries of the past are history. By creating a larger community, Europe has achieved what Etzioni seeks on a global scale. How has Europe done it? Can Europe’s success be a model for other parts of the world, just as its development of the modern nation-state became the model for political life in previous centuries? And will Europe itself be likely to survive as a thriving community, or will it fail in the end to sustain its own model? This article explores the basis for Europe’s remarkable developments of the past 60 years and the possibilities that Europe can lead the way forward for the achievement of Etzioni’s vision.

Key Words: communitarianism • European Union • global governance

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