Although it has been a global phenomenon for decades before recent
acts of massive violence, anti-Americanism has prompted few serious
studies in English. This collection of original reports and
observations seeks to explain its impact in areas throughout the
world, taking advantage of the cultural and geographical expertise
of the contributors. Understanding Anti-Americanism distinguishes
between rational and specific critiques of American foreign policy
and American society on the one hand, and that brand of hostile
predisposition that blames the United States for a wide variety of
grievances and frustrations that are at best tangentially related
to its policies, institutions, or way of life. The book includes
essays on the historical origins of anti-Americanism and its
occurrences in the Arab world, Western Europe, post-Communist
Russia, Latin America, and China. Like-minded sentiments within the
United States are examined in the contexts of education, mass
culture, the peace movements, and feminist rejections of American
society, and in a comparison of trends between the 1960s and the
twenty-first century. Recent international developments as well as
U.S. leadership in modernization and globalization receive special
attention as sources of hostility. Among the contributors are James
Ceaser, Patrick Clawson, Walter Connor, Anthony Daniels, Dario
Fernandez-Morera, Adam Garfinkle, Roger Kimball, Harvey Klehr,
Michael Radu, Barry Rubin, Bruce Thornton, Arthur Waldron, and
Cathy Young. In his substantial Introduction, Paul Hollander
examines the major sources and expressions of anti-Americanism and
suggests reasons why it is unlikely to disappear or diminish in the
near future, notwithstanding its irrational features and the
spectacle of millions of people voting with their feet to become
members of this much maligned society.
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