Social Research articles from December 2005

Social Research archives from December 2005

Editor's introduction.
December 22, 2005... THIS ISSUE, LIKE 12 OF OUR ISSUES IN THE PAST 17 YEARS, CONTAINS papers based on presentations at a Social Research conference. "Their America: The US in the Eyes of the Rest of the World," our thirteenth conference, was held at The New School...

Introduction.(Views from the UK, Mexico, Germany and France)(United States)
December 22, 2005... AS THIS CONFERENCE, "THEIR AMERICA," TOOK PLACE IN OCTOBER 2004, that year's presidential election was not much more than two weeks away. A feeling was widespread--not only within the country but around the world--that the United States was...

Britain and America: ameliorating unilateralism.(Views from the UK, Mexico, Germany and France)
December 22, 2005... NO CONSIDERATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES of America and the rest of the world can start other than from the fact of America's total dominance in so many dimensions of modern life: its technological dominance, its economic...

Europe and America: the ties that bind.(Views from the UK, Mexico, Germany, and France)(democracy)
December 22, 2005... HEARING WHAT THE NEW AMERICANISM IS ALL ABOUT, I ALWAYS wonder what anti-Americanism is. Obviously, one has to know what Americanism is. And now I hear it is basically almost a caricature of high school teachings that I enjoyed in Missouri as a...

Introduction.(Views from Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East)(on the United States)
December 22, 2005... Introduction THIS COLLECTION OF PAPERS IS AN ATTEMPT TO LOOK SQUARELY AT the recently growing phenomenon of intense anti-American sentiment. The papers in Part I take us up close to the relatively new images and debates on the United...

Ambiguity and America: South Africa and US Foreign Policy.(Views from Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East)(United States)
December 22, 2005... INTRODUCTION The relationship between South Africa (as represented by the majority of South Africans) and the United States has a complex history." The reaction in the United States to racial oppression and racial discrimination, and the...

A Story of ambivalence or pure love: Israelis and America.(Views from Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East)
December 22, 2005... THERE IS A STORY, INDEED A LOVE STORY, THE GIST OF WHICH IS THAT the Bulgarians love the Russians. They were helped by the Russians in crucial moments in their history and because of that and because of a general sense of affinity, the...

America: a view from Egypt.(Views from Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East)
December 22, 2005... BACKGROUND In Western democracies, the public expresses its views in open elections and through frequent opinion polling. In Egypt, articulating a point of view on any important matter is tricky for two reasons: the absence of democracy...

America as the mirror of Russian phobias.(Views from Russia, Pakistan, Malaysia, and China)
December 22, 2005... AMERICA THE ALMIGHTY ON NOVEMBER 4, 2005, RUSSIA CELEBRATED FOR THE FIRST TIME ITS new national holiday, the Day of Popular Unity. Ever since Russia lost its imperial and great power status, its authorities have been trying hard to build a...

The United States and Islam: toward perpetual war?(Views from Russia, Pakistan, Malaysia, and China)
December 22, 2005... When the banner is unfurled, all reason is in the trumpet--Ukrainian proverb TRAPPED BETWEEN THE SCYLLA OF AMERICAN IMPERIAL ARROGANCE and the Charybdis of Islamic religious fanaticism, citizens of Planet Earth have entered an age of...

The relationship between Southeast Asia and the United States: a contemporary analysis.(Views from Russia, Pakistan, Malaysia, and China)
December 22, 2005... SOUTHEAST ASIA EXHIBITS TREMENDOUS CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS diversity; all the major religions of the world can be found in the region. It is also marked by vast economic disparities. At one end of the spectrum is Singapore, which has a standard...

US-Africa relations over the last century: an African perspective.(Views from Russia, Pakistan, Malaysia, and China)(United States)
December 22, 2005... OVER THE LAST CENTURY, RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND Africa have undergone many changes. The relationship between these two geographic zones has been defined primarily by the slave trade and the Cold War. Although historians familiar...

Reimagining America.(Views from Russia, Pakistan, Malaysia, and China)
December 22, 2005... SCHOLARS HAVE USED A VARIETY OF TERMS TO DESCRIBE CHINESE perceptions of the United States: exotic, menacing, open, energetic, independent, modern, and rich. These conflicting images of America through the ages reflect American realities as...