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The Communitarian Approach to International Relations and the Future of World Order

Princeton University, University of California-Santa Barbara

This article comments on Amitai Etzioni’s advocacy of "soft communitarianism" as the preferred approach to the establishment of a global governance architecture responsive to the current range of world order challenges facing the world and the United States. The article criticizes the effort to combine an insider discussion of American foreign policy with the presentation of a framework for ethical problem solving that has the potential for acceptance throughout the world. A related criticism is the degree to which the foreign policy agenda is discussed in the terms within which it has arisen in Washington, giving the communitarian approach a discrediting nationalistic tilt.

Key Words: communitarianism • liberalism • neoconservatism • American foreign policy • Americanism

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