Download or read book From Empire to Community written by Amitai Etzioni and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-05-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former presidential advisor offers a new road map for creating an effective global authority that respects and understands the many forces that now shape relations among people and nations. Basic safety, human rights, and global social issues, such as environmental protection are best solved cooperatively, and Etzioni explores ways of creating global authorities robust enough to handle these issues as he outlines the journey from "empire to community."