Hermann Kurthen is associate professor of sociology at Grand Valley State University. His publications in English include:Immigration, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Germany and the United States (JAI, 1998).Antonio V. Menéndez-Alarcón is associate professor of sociology at Butler University. He is the author ofThe Cultural Realm of European Integration (Greenwood, 2004) andPower and Television in Latin America (Westport, 1992).Stefan Immerfall is professor of sociology at Schwäbisch Gmünd University. His publications in English include:The New Politics of the Right (St. Martin's, 1998) andTerritoriality in the Globalizing Society (Springer, 1998).

This book has a number of merits that should make it interesting and useful across disciplines.

• 1 Section 1: Transatlantic Relations2 Introduction: New Challenges for Transatlantic Estrangement2 The Bush Administration's Faith-Based Foreign Policy – A Matter of Transatlantic Estrangement4 Beneath the Iceberg – Liberalism at CrossroadsExamining a Few Issues in the Current Ridt in German-American RelationsChapter 4 Drifting Apart: Cultural Dimensions of the Transatlantic Estrangement6 Germans from Venus? The Out-of-Area Problems in US-German Relations7 Transatlantic Economy:When the Political Goings Get Tough, the Tough Get Going7 The Hunt for a Competitive Advantage: How PISA has Shaped Discussions over Educational Policy Reform in the US and German8 Transatlantic Discourse? Reflections on Comparing Immigration and Immigrant Integration in the United States and Germany9 Bonds that Hold: Germany and America in an Age of Turbulence9 The New York Times and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Two Perspectives on the War in Iraq10 Section 2: Transatlantic Comparisons10 Wars Apart: The Second World War Memory Cultures of Germany and the United States11 Celsius 9/11: Michael Moore's German Reception and the (Contemporary) Image of America12 Ascetic Protestantism and American Uniqueness: The Political Cultures of Germany and the United States Compared16 Conclusion: Transatlantic Relations–Probable Futures, and Desirable Outcomes

Hermann Kurthen is associate professor of sociology at Grand Valley State University. His publications in English include:Immigration, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Germany and the United States (JAI, 1998).Antonio V. Menéndez-Alarcón is associate professor of sociology at Butler University. He is the author ofThe Cultural Realm of European Integration (Greenwood, 2004) andPower and Television in Latin America (Westport, 1992).Stefan Immerfall is professor of sociology at Schwäbisch Gmünd University. His publications in English include:The New Politics of the Right (St. Martin's, 1998) andTerritoriality in the Globalizing Society (Springer, 1998).

This book has a number of merits that should make it interesting and useful across disciplines.

• 1 Section 1: Transatlantic Relations2 Introduction: New Challenges for Transatlantic Estrangement2 The Bush Administration's Faith-Based Foreign Policy – A Matter of Transatlantic Estrangement4 Beneath the Iceberg – Liberalism at CrossroadsExamining a Few Issues in the Current Ridt in German-American RelationsChapter 4 Drifting Apart: Cultural Dimensions of the Transatlantic Estrangement6 Germans from Venus? The Out-of-Area Problems in US-German Relations7 Transatlantic Economy:When the Political Goings Get Tough, the Tough Get Going7 The Hunt for a Competitive Advantage: How PISA has Shaped Discussions over Educational Policy Reform in the US and German8 Transatlantic Discourse? Reflections on Comparing Immigration and Immigrant Integration in the United States and Germany9 Bonds that Hold: Germany and America in an Age of Turbulence9 The New York Times and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Two Perspectives on the War in Iraq10 Section 2: Transatlantic Comparisons10 Wars Apart: The Second World War Memory Cultures of Germany and the United States11 Celsius 9/11: Michael Moore's German Reception and the (Contemporary) Image of America12 Ascetic Protestantism and American Uniqueness: The Political Cultures of Germany and the United States Compared16 Conclusion: Transatlantic Relations–Probable Futures, and Desirable Outcomes

Hermann Kurthen is associate professor of sociology at Grand Valley State University. His publications in English include:Immigration, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Germany and the United States (JAI, 1998).Antonio V. Menéndez-Alarcón is associate professor of sociology at Butler University. He is the author ofThe Cultural Realm of European Integration (Greenwood, 2004) andPower and Television in Latin America (Westport, 1992).Stefan Immerfall is professor of sociology at Schwäbisch Gmünd University. His publications in English include:The New Politics of the Right (St. Martin's, 1998) andTerritoriality in the Globalizing Society (Springer, 1998).

This book has a number of merits that should make it interesting and useful across disciplines.

• 1 Section 1: Transatlantic Relations2 Introduction: New Challenges for Transatlantic Estrangement2 The Bush Administration's Faith-Based Foreign Policy – A Matter of Transatlantic Estrangement4 Beneath the Iceberg – Liberalism at CrossroadsExamining a Few Issues in the Current Ridt in German-American RelationsChapter 4 Drifting Apart: Cultural Dimensions of the Transatlantic Estrangement6 Germans from Venus? The Out-of-Area Problems in US-German Relations7 Transatlantic Economy:When the Political Goings Get Tough, the Tough Get Going7 The Hunt for a Competitive Advantage: How PISA has Shaped Discussions over Educational Policy Reform in the US and German8 Transatlantic Discourse? Reflections on Comparing Immigration and Immigrant Integration in the United States and Germany9 Bonds that Hold: Germany and America in an Age of Turbulence9 The New York Times and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Two Perspectives on the War in Iraq10 Section 2: Transatlantic Comparisons10 Wars Apart: The Second World War Memory Cultures of Germany and the United States11 Celsius 9/11: Michael Moore's German Reception and the (Contemporary) Image of America12 Ascetic Protestantism and American Uniqueness: The Political Cultures of Germany and the United States Compared16 Conclusion: Transatlantic Relations–Probable Futures, and Desirable Outcomes