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America Right or Wrong Anatol Lieven (Department of War Studies, King's College London)

America Right or Wrong By Anatol Lieven (Department of War Studies, King's College London)

America Right or Wrong by Anatol Lieven (Department of War Studies, King's College London)


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Renowned contemporary commentator Anatol Lieven anatomizes American nationalism - its roots, its defining features, and its recent radicalization - and just how greatly this is contributing to the paralysis of effective government in what remains the world's most powerful and important country

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America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism NEW EDITION by Anatol Lieven (Department of War Studies, King's College London)

American policies, the American economy, and the health of the American political system are all of crucial importance to the world - and to other Western democracies in particular. Yet in recent years, the American political scene has become increasingly radicalized, embittered, and polarized - contributing to a near-paralysis of economic policy and intense partisanship concerning relations with the rest of the world. In this essential guide to the present state of US politics, renowned commentator Anatol Lieven pin-points American nationalism as the key to explaining the present troubles in America's body politic. Delving deep into the cultural and historical roots of the phenomenon, Lieven portrays American nationalism as a highly complex mixture of different elements which are sometimes opposed to each other, and sometimes intertwined. On the one hand, there is the core tradition of American civic nationalism based on the universalist 'American Creed' of almost religious reverence for American democratic institutions and the U.S. constitution. On the other, there exists a chauvinist nationalism which holds that these institutions are underpinned by cultural values which belong only to certain Americans, and which is strongly hostile both to foreigners and to minorities in America which are felt not to share those values. In this updated edition of his classic study, Anatol Lieven traces the re-emergence of radical strains of American nationalism in recent years, manifested in the rise of the Tea Party movement and the ongoing radicalization of the Republican Party. He attributes this to a combination of the effects of 9/11, the influence of the alliance with Israel, and above all, the long-term and increasing economic decline of large sections of the white middle classes. Deprived by nationalist ideology of the ability to explain what is happening to them in rational terms, many of these people are now turning to ideologies and demonologies that contribute greatly to the paralysis of effective government in what remains the world's most powerful and important country.

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Lieven's analysis of the American scene is both alarming and informative in equal parts. * Northern Echo *
Lieven is a veteran journalist, Professor of War Studies at Kingas College London and author of books about Russia, Ukraine, the Baltics and Chechnya. In America Right or Wrong, he draws on his deep reading in American intellectual history and personal experiences studying and working in the United States to produce an ambitious, thoughtful and useful book. * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *

About Anatol Lieven (Department of War Studies, King's College London)

Anatol Lieven is a professor in the War Studies Department at King's College London, and a senior fellow of the New America Foundation in Washington DC. From 2000 to 2007 he worked at think tanks in Washington DC and studied US foreign and domestic policies in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. His areas of expertise include US strategy and political culture; Islamist terrorism and insurgency; contemporary warfare; the countries of the former Soviet Union; and the Greater Middle East, especially Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran. From 1989 to 1998 he worked as a journalist in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (for The Times, the Financial Times, and the BBC). He is the author of several books on Russia and its neighbours. His most recent book, Pakistan: A Hard Country was published in 2011 by Penguin. It is based on his time as a journalist in Pakistan in the late 1980s and extensive research on the ground in recent years.

Table of Contents

Preface ; Introduction ; 1. An Exceptional Nationalism? ; 2. Splendor and Tragedy of the American Creed ; 3. The Embittered Heartland ; 4. Fundamentalists and Great Fears ; 5. The Legacy of the Cold War ; 6. American Nationalism, Israel, and the Middle East ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Index

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NPB9780199660254
9780199660254
0199660255
America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism NEW EDITION by Anatol Lieven (Department of War Studies, King's College London)
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Oxford University Press
20120927
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