Format:
Online-Ressource (206 p)
ISBN:
9780691130255
Content:
It has never been more important for Americans to understand why the world both hates and loves the United States. In What They Think of Us, a remarkable group of writers from the Middle East, Europe, Asia, and Latin America describes the world's profoundly ambivalent attitudes toward the United States--before and since 9/11. While many people around the world continue to see the United States as a model despite the Iraq war and the war on terror, the U.S. response to 9/11 has undoubtedly intensified global anti-Americanism. What They Think of Us reveals that substantial
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CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; Iraqis' Bleak Views of the United States; Beyond the Stained Glass Window: Indonesian Perceptions of the United States and the War on Terror; Turkish Perceptions of the United States; Beautiful Imperialist or Warmongering Hegemon: Contemporary Chinese Views of the United States; From the Cold War to a Lukewarm Peace: Russian Views of September 11 and Beyond; Nuestro Once de Septiembre: The Kingdom of the Comma; The Twilight of American Cultural Hegemony: A Historical Perspective on Western Europe's Distancing from America; INDEX
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781400827602
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691130255
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe What They Think of Us : International Perceptions of the United States since 9/11
Language:
English
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