Dr. Amitai Etzioni is a Professor of International Affairs and the Director of the Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies at George Washington University. Dr. Etzioni served as a Professor of Sociology at Columbia University for 20 years; part of that time as the Chairman of the department. He was a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution in 1978 before serving as a Senior Advisor to the White House from 1979-1980.