Reclaiming Patriotism

Available for Purchase and Free E-Book Download!

Book cover with title Reclaiming Patriotism and author Amitai Etzioni in red text and blue stars

"This is a major contribution by a leading public intellectual to a central issue of our time. ..."
Wolfgang Streeck, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, author of How Will Capitalism End?

"Drawing on a lifetime of sociological research and decades as a global communitarian leader, Amitai Etzioni boldly takes on the most fundamental political challenge of our time. ..."
William A. Galston, The Brookings Institution

Download the e-book without charge!

 

Check It Out on BookTV!

C-SPAN's BookTV aired the Reclaiming Patriotism book launch party that was hosted by the Elliott School.

The video of the event is available here.

A large red "X" over an image of a White Nationalist parade, including Nazi and Confederate flags; at the bottom, the text reads "LET'S NOT CEDE PATRIOTISM TO THEM. IT CAN BE LOVE OF COUNTRY WITHOUT HATRED: FOR HOW, CLICK HERE

Arena Civil Dialogues

Join Us for FREE Events!

Arena Civil Dialogues logo - two overlapping speech bubbles, with the words "arena civil dialogues" inside

Videos of previous dialogues are available for streaming from our YouTube channel

Welcome

The Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies at the George Washington University is the nation's leading center for communitarian policy research and is a research institute dedicated to finding constructive solutions to social problems through morally informed policy analysis and moral dialogue. We seek to bring the best scholarship and analysis to bear on policy issues affecting family, schools, the community, and the moral climate of society as a whole.

Read More

Please visit Civil Dialogues.org / A New Online Platform for Civil Discourse on Urgent Matters / How It Works: / Participant identities are verified to promote civility. / Participants share their opinions on Dialogue pages and create related Resolutions, all under their real names. / Participants anonymously vote on Resolutions to see if there is consensus. If not, the process continues. (Arrows link the two steps of the process about sharing and voting, showing a feedback loop.) / Click on this image to visit the site and join the conversation!

Our Latest Research and Writing

The U.S. Capitol dome, with a U.S. flag waving on a flagpole in front of it

Is America Becoming a Chauvinistic Nation?

March 20, 2021

We need a new, much stronger, sense of nationhood—not to suppress differences but to keep them contained so we can resolve them in a civil way.


Joe Biden wearing a black mask

As Bioengineering Advances, Biden Should Reestablish the President's Council on Bioethics

March 18, 2021

All new technologies raise major ethnical concerns; however, few come close to the tantalizing issues that advances in biological engineering raise.


Women from a minority group collect cabbages on a farm in rural China

The Challenging Results of China's New Anti-Poverty Campaign

March 11, 2021

It’s not as simple as some critics might have you believe.


A man rides a bicycle in the snow in Kabul

Failed State: Why the Taliban's Corrupt Afghanistan Can't Be Saved

February 28, 2021

How many more Afghans will we allow to be killed so that our politicians will not have to admit that the United States and its allies failed in Afghanistan, and it is time to get out?

A clipart-like image with a human arm seving as the base for a set of scales; the hand grasps the bar that connects the balances

Human Rights Are a Worthy But Tricky Foundation for Foreign Policy

February 25, 2021

The Biden administration is reintroducing liberal principles – the promotion of democracy and human rights – as a major foundation of U.S. foreign policy.

A 2019 picture of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, seated in three-quarter profile in front of an Iranian flag

Iran: Let's Talk - "Why America Is Signaling Its Willingness to Talk to Iran"

February 21, 2021

The Biden administration has already taken several steps that Tehran will view as an indication that President Joe Biden is very keen to avoid a confrontation and to talk instead.

President Joe Biden wears a black mask and gestures with both hands as he speaks from a podium with the presidential seal

One More Joe Biden Challenge: Maintain Discipline

February 13, 2021

Add one more entry to the long list of challenges President Joe Biden faces: exerting discipline.

Lists of Professor Amitai Etzioni's published works from the beginning of his career through the early 2000s are available, and some of the listed works are linked to the full text.

Follow ICPS

  Subscribe to our Mailing List

The Making of a Peacenik: Amitai Etzioni

Amitai Etzioni

Professor Amitai Etzioni Featured on Two Podcasts!

"Global Ethics Weekly," hosted by Alex Woodson - "China's Changing Role in the Pandemic-Driven World, with Amitai Etzioni & Nikolas Gvosdev"

May 26, 2020

Listen and/or Read the Transcript

 

"Vermont Conversation with David Goodman"

May 20, 2020

Listen

Full text available for free download:

Happiness is the Wrong Metric book cover

Recent Videos

View all