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Out of discordant, often strident, conflicting voices that emanate from the East and the West, a new composition is slowly arising. The blended tune has a limited register, on many issues divergent voices will continue to be heard, and it is sure to be accorded divergent interpretations in various parts of the world and over time. Yet the new tune suffices to provide stronger support for global institution building than was available in recent decades. The metaphorical “voices” I refer to are expressions of basic normative positions, worldviews, and ideologies. They concern values that define what is considered legitimate,1 a major foundation of social order, and good government.
This paper draws directly on my book “From Empire to Community: A New Approach to International Relations” (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
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See, for example, Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man (New York: Free Press, 1992); Michael Mandelbaum, The Ideas that Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-First Century (New York: Public Affairs, 2002); Fareed Zakaria, The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (New York: W. W. Norton, 2003).
George W. Bush, “Introduction”, The National Security Strategy of the United States of America, September 2002, Available at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.pdf. Accessed 10/28/02.
Blair quoted in George F. Will, “.. Or Maybe Not at All,” Washington Post, 17 August 2003, B7.
See Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996); and Bernard Lewis, “The Roots of Muslim Rage,” Atlantic Monthly, September 1990, pp. 47“60.
Samuel P. Huntington, “The Clash of Civilizations,” Foreign Affairs 72, no. 3 (Summer 1993), p. 40.
For a good comparison of Huntington and Fukuyama, see Stanley Kurtz, “The Future of History,” Policy Review, no. 113 (2002), pp. 43–58.
Thomas L. Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1999).
There are some who argue that one can find within Asian cultural traditions values that are comparable to Western human rights. See, for example, Human Rights in Asian Cultures: Continuity and Change, ed. Jefferson R. Plantilla and Sebasti L. Raj, S.J. (Osaka: Hurights Osaka, 1997).
Bush quoted in William Kristol, “Morality in Foreign Policy,” Weekly Standard, February 10, 2003, p. 7.
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Etzioni, A. (2008). Basic Contours of the Global Normative Synthesis. In: Schönbäck, W., Blaas, W., Bröthaler, J. (eds) Sozioökonomie als multidisziplinärer Forschungsansatz. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-69924-9_24
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