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Etzioni, AmitaiContributor(s)
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbHKeywords
Internationale BeziehungenPolitikwissenschaft
International relations
Political science
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
International Relations, International Politics, Foreign Affairs, Development Policy
internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
international relations
civil society
Islamic society
foreign policy
discourse
Western world
value-orientation
political culture
international unterstanding
cultural relations
communitarism
globalization
community
Wertorientierung
Diskurs
Globalisierung
westliche Welt
kulturelle Beziehungen
politische Kultur
Gemeinschaft
Völkerverständigung
Kommunitarismus
Außenpolitik
Zivilgesellschaft
internationale Beziehungen
islamische Gesellschaft
descriptive study
deskriptive Studie
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Dem neueren außenpolitischen Denken des Westens liegen nach Einschätzung des Autors zwei Hauptthemen zugrunde: Zum einen wird behauptet, die Welt nähere sich zentralen Werten und Institutionen des Westens an, die z.B. Persönlichkeitsrechte, Demokratie und freie Marktwirtschaft umfassen. Zum anderen wird behauptet, die Welt außerhalb des Westens werde überwiegend von religiösen Fundamentalisten oder einem fremdartigen Wertekatalog regiert, der mit dem des Westens inkompatibel sei, weshalb dieseantithetischen Zivilisationen zwangsläufig in Konflikt geraten müssen. Beide Standpunkte implizieren, dass nichtwestliche Nationen wenig zur globalen Entwicklung politischer und wirtschaftlicher Institutionen und zu den Werten, die sie verkörpern, beitragen können - denn Recht, Freiheit und Kapitalismus sind schließlich westliche Beiträge an die Welt. Der Autor versucht in seinem Vortrag hingegen zu zeigen, dass sich die Welt auf eine neue Synthese hinbewegen wird, die u.a. aus folgenden Elementen besteht: aus der hohen Wertschätzung des Westens für persönliche Freiheit und individuelle Wahlmöglichkeiten und der ebenfalls hohen, wenn auch sehr verschiedenartigen Achtung des Ostens vor sozialen Verpflichtungen; aus der westlichen Überbetonung von Autonomie und der östlichen Überbetonung von sozialer Ordnung; aus westlichem rechtlichen und politischen Egalitarismus und östlichem Autoritarismus; aus der ablehnenden Haltung des Westens gegenüber großen Ideologien und Utopismen und den extensiven normativen Festlegungen von Ge- und Verboten im Osten. Der Autor bezeichnet diese neu entstehende Synthese als "weichen Kommunitarismus" der Zivilgesellschaft. (ICI2)Date
2010-06-10Type
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http://www.wzb.eu/publikation/pdf/pdfs%20vorlesungen/les8_etzioni.pdf
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