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Preliminary material -- INTRODUCTION -- NORMATIVE ORDER IN ORGANIZATIONS -- ETZIONI'S FUNCTIONALISM AND SOCIETAL CONSTITUTIONALISM -- ORDER IN DEMOCRATIC SOCIETIES: ETZIONI'S THREE MAJOR CONCEPTUAL DECISIONS -- DEFINING AN ACTIVE SOCIETY: PUSHING AMERICAN PRAGMATISM AND OPTIMISM TO THE EDGE -- OVERCOMING OBSTACLES TO ACTIVENESS I: EXTENDING CONSENSUS AND CONTROL -- OVERCOMING OBSTACLES TO ACTIVENESS II: RECRUITING AND SOCIALIZING LEADERS -- POLICY FOR AN ACTIVE SOCIETY -- DECLINING OPTIMISM: AN IMMODEST AGENDA IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY -- ONGOING FAILURE: BREAKDOWNS IN PRIMARY SOCIALIZATION -- INCREASING CRITICISM: CORRUPTION IN ELECTORAL POLITICS AND NATIONAL GOVERNANCE -- THE ECONOMY'S "NORMATIVE CAPSULE:" FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIO-ECONOMICS -- INTERPERSONAL COMMUNITY AND INSTITUTIONAL COMMUNITY -- TYPES OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNITY I: SHAMING AND PRIVILEGING COMMUNITY -- TYPES OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNITY II: RESPONSIVE COMMUNITY -- MORAL COMMITMENTS OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNITY -- ETZIONI REFERENCES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- INTERNATIONAL STUDIES IN SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY.

This book reassesses international functionalism as an approach to global politics. Functionalism has been marginalized as simply a pre-scientific precursor to regional integration theory. In fact, functionalism provides a global view of states and international organizations working towards a peaceful and constructive world order through cooperative relationships across borders to satisfy human needs. Chapters examine the early development of functionalism and apply functionalist insights to issues, problems and conflicts in contemporary global governance

Few reading this Journal would argue with the assertion that both the substance and the study of world politics are now characterized by a seemingly endless process of change. The proliferation of political issues, especially those labelled "post-industrial", and the recognition of transnational phenomena, among other factors, have greatly increased the number of problems considered 'legitimate' by the scholar and practitioner. Yet we have long been made aware of many of these problems by the remarkably prescient 'functional' writings of one man, David Mitrany. Whenever 'functionalism' is used in the context of world politics or regional integration the obligatory reference is to Mitrany's A Working Peace System and, until very recently, he continued to provide the intellectual force behind the approach. The books considered in this review offer description, application and criticism of functionalism from different perspectives and with different empirical references, but the central thread remains Mitrany's conceptualization of the approach.