Etzioni, Amitai

Last name:  Etzioni
Name:  Amitai

Amitai Etzioni received his PhD in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. He then became a professor of sociology at Columbia University for twenty years, serving as chair of the department for part of his time there. He joined the Brookings Institution as a guest scholar in 1978 and then went on to serve as Senior Advisor to the White House from 1979–1980. In 1980 he was named the first University Professor at the George Washington University, where he currently serves as the director of the Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies. He is the author of 24 books including Modern Organizations (1964), The Active Society (1968), The New Golden Rule: Community and Morality in a Democratic Society (1996), The Moral Dimension (1988), How Patriotic is the Patriot Act: Freedom Versus Security in the Age of Terrorism (2004), and From Empire to Community: A New Approach to International Relations (2004).