ABSTRACT
The boldness with which Huntington, in particular, offers up his thesis on the revival of the civilization level of analysis merits a pause. Cultural communities are replacing Cold War blocs, and the fault lines between civilizations are becoming the central lines of conflict in global politics". Civilization is in effect for Huntington a mega-state, or the reverse of the Kantian premise of such a world state as being a pre-condition for universal peace and brotherhood. A serious problem for civilizational analysis of the Huntington variety is the extent to which it has absorbed multinationals as myth no less than reality. Amitai Etzioni in A Responsive Community develops one minimalist in contrast to a maximalist. Etzioni examines community in cultural no less than material terms. With Etzioni one witnesses the uneasy allegiance in overt terms to the canons of liberal orthodoxy-including a faith in democratic procedures and legislation, co-mingled with the impatient concern for community control.
