1st Edition

The United States Contested American Unilateralism and European Discontent

Edited By Sergio Fabbrini Copyright 2006
    256 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    256 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    Why and how is America contested by Europe? This new book answers this question and contributes to a better understanding of contemporary transatlantic tensions.

    Adopting different theoretical perspectives, the leading contributors to this volume assess the European discontent with America and relate this to the unilateral turn of US foreign policy in the twenty-first century. American unilateralism is interpreted by all the authors as the expression of a new conservative nationalism which has been growing in the country since the 1970s and became culturally hegemonic after 9/11. They explore the following key areas:

    • the rise of American conservative nationalism
    • US foreign policy
    • transatlantic relations
    • anti-Americanism
    • the Iraq War
    • the future of American political and cultural hegemony.

    This book will be vital reading for students of international relations, foreign policy analysis, American and European politics.

    List of contributors

    Presentation

    INTRODUCTION

    Why is America contested?

    1 American unilateralism as a new conservative nationalism

    SERGIO FABBRINI


    PART I

    The rise and success of American conservative nationalism

     

    2 The historical and ideological roots of the neoconservative persuasion

    MARIO DEL PERO

    3 The neoconservatives as a continuation and an aberration in American foreign policy

    DOUGLAS T. STUART

    4 What’s the big idea? Models of global order in the post-cold war era

    RICHARD CROCKATT

    PART II

    The European discontent: a new anti-Americanism?

    5 Anti-Americanism in Europe: what’s new? An appraisal and personal account

    ROB KROES

    6 Anti-Americanism and the European peace movement: the Iraq war

    CARLO RUZZA and EMANUELA BOZZINI

     
    7 Anti-Americanism and European public opinion during the Iraq war

    PIERANGELO ISERNIA


    PART III

    Which future for American conservative nationalism?

    8 America after the 2004 elections: bold policies and political quicksand

      BRUCE E. CAIN

    9 The economic constraints on American unilateral foreign policy

    ROBERTO TAMBORINI

    10 The cultural resistance to American political values: a global perspective

    SCOTT THOMAS   


    CONCLUSION

    America contested or rejected?

    11 Contested but indispensable: the missing point of European discontent

    MARK F. GILBERT


    Index

    Biography

    Sergio Fabbrini is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Ph.D. Programme in International Studies at the University of Trento, Italy. He is the editor of the "Rivista italiana di scienza politica".