1st Edition

The Anti-American Century

Edited By Alan McPherson, Ivan Krastev Copyright 2007
170 Pages
by Central European University Press

This book interrogates the nature of anti-Americanism today and over the last century. It asks several questions: How do we define the phenomenon from different perspectives: political, social, and cultural? What are the historical sources and turning points of anti-Americanism in Europe and elsewhere? What are its links with anti-Semitic sentiment? Has anti-Americanism been beneficial or... Read more
Acknowledgments, Introduction, The Anti-American Century?, “Little America”—Eastern European Economic Cultures in the EU, Anti-Americanism in Latin America and the Caribbean—“False Populism” or Coming Full Circle?, Rethinking Young Anti-Americanism in South Korea, How “Big Brother” Became the “Great Satan”—Changing Perceptions of the United States among the Muslim Communities of Southeast Asia, A Plea for Distinctions–Disentangling Anti-Americanism from Anti-Semitism, List of Contributors

Biography

Alan McPherson is Associate Professor of History at Howard University in Washington, D.C. He is the author of the prize-winning Yankee No! Anti-Americanism in U.S.–Latin American Relations (Harvard, 2003), and of Intimate Ties, Bitter Struggles: The United States and Latin America since 1945 (Potomac, 2006).

Ivan Krastev is Chairman of the Board of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia and research director of the Politics of Anti-Americanism project of the Central European University in Budapest. He has published widely on post-Socialist transition, corruption and politics of anti-Americanism in Central and Eastern Europe.