1st Edition

America Embattled 9/11, Anti-Americanism and the Global Order

By Richard Crockatt Copyright 2003
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

What causes Anti- Americanism and where are its historical roots? What is the impact of 9/11 on America's sense of itself and its role in the world? Is America paradoxically a victim of its own political and economic power? This book seeks to understand the terrible attacks of September 11th within a broader historical, political and ideological context. Rather than drawing on simple 'clash of... Read more
Introduction September 11, 2001; Chapter 1 How America sees the world; Chapter 2 How the world sees America; Chapter 3 The roots of terror; Chapter 4 The limits of governance; Chapter 5 Responding to terror; Conclusion;

Biography

Richard Crockatt is Reader in American History at the University of East Anglia. His award-winning The Fifty Years War: The United States and the Soviet Union in World Politics, 1941–1991 is also published by Routledge.