Anti-Americanism
It's the Policies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6002071 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Juan Cole (0000-0002-0540-1474, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 111 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1120-1129 |
| Publication date | 2006-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1086/ahr.111.4.1120 |
| OpenAlex | W2125380326 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
EXPLAINING ANTI-AMERICANISM is more difficult than it may seem on the surface, and the phenomenon itself is far more varied and complex than can be conveyed by the stock image of rallies in the global South demanding that the Yankees go home.Each of the articles in this AHR Forum focuses on a particular geographical region (Latin America, Europe, and Asia) and advances an explicit or implicit thesis about the nature of anti-Americanism.Among the main explanations for hostility toward the U.S. have been rejection of democratic ideals and preference for various forms of authoritarianism.Given that the United States has been a democratic success story for more than two centuries, this line of thinking concludes, it is necessary to critique it if classic liberalism itself is to be discredited.Other authors have argued that hostility toward the United States is generated not by fears of its uncontrolled grassroots politics, but by foreign policy stances taken by U.S. elites, which have an impact on publics in the rest of the world that those publics perceive as negative.Yet another common thesis is that the rapacious and unrestrained character of American capitalism alarms observers abroad, especially in a globalizing world where U.S. monopoly practices can have an immediate and wide-ranging impact.The authors in this Forum attempt in various ways to complicate these easy narratives of perfidy and hypocrisy, of irrational fear and calculated self-interest.All put forward theses about the nature of the phenomenon in their area of the world.I have been assigned the task of commenting on these arguments, and also of injecting the Middle East into a discussion that for the most part touches on it only tangentially.Do the Middle Eastern cases cast any light on the generalizability of the authors' perspectives, which have been arrived at by consideration of other regions of the world?IN GREG GRANDIN'S ESSAY on anti-Americanism in Latin America, a fourfold distinction is made.There are American liberal and universal ideals, with Jefferson, Whitman, and FDR instanced.Then there is American imperial power, often exercised in ways starkly contrary to the country's stated ideals.Likewise, there is the Latin American perception of the central ideals of the United States, and the Latin perception of Washington's deployment of brute power in the hemisphere.Grandin
Anti-Americanism · Political science · Law · Leadership, Human Resources, Global Affairs
Destinations
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For God or Country? Comparing the Sources of Anti-American and Anti-Muslim Attitudes
Arab Responses to Western Hegemony
Connecting Contextual and Individual Drivers of Anti-Americanism in Arab Countries
Elite Competition, Religiosity, and Anti-Americanism in the Islamic World
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,53 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2022 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |