I can send offlist, this paper to anyone interested.
Forthcoming book in 6 weeks from Princeton Iniv. Press by Markovits, a translation of AMERIKA, DICH HASST SICH's BESSER. ANTIAMERIKANISMUS UND ANTISEMITISMUS IN EUROPA is now in its 3rd edition, soon to appear in its fourth. from KONKRET-LITERATUR VERLAG that publishes the wonderful monthly magazine KONKRET. An expanded and altered English-language version of this book, " UNCOUTH NATION: WHY EUROPE DISLIKES AMERICA."
European Anti-Americanism (and Anti-Semitism):
Ever Present Though Always Denied
by Andrei S. Markovits
Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics
and German Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1275
Abstract
There can be no doubt that the Bush Administration's policies have massively contributed to a hitherto unprecedented deterioration in European-American relations.
However, European antipathies towards many things American date back at least to July 5, 1776, if not before. Following a conceptual discussion of anti-Americanism, the paper then turns to an account of these historical dislikes and anchors them particularly among Europe's elites. A discussion of anti-Semitism in relation to anti-Americanism follows in the subsequent section. A summary of an analysis of newspaper articles collected in the decade of the 1990s highlights the widespread nature of anti-American sentiments in Britain, France, Germany, and Italy. Lastly, anti-Americanism's functionality as a useful ingredient in Europe's burgeoning state building process concludes the paper.
-- Michael Pugliese