Anti-American Century

Alan McPherson is Associate Professor of History at Howard University in Washington, D.C. He is the author of the prize-winning Yankee No! Anti-Americanism in U.S.–Latin American Relations (Harvard, 2003), and of Intimate Ties, Bitter Struggles: The United States and Latin America since 1945 (Potomac, 2006).Ivan Krastev is Chairman of the Board of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia and research director of the Politics of Anti-Americanism project of the Central European University in Budapest. He has published widely on post-Socialist transition, corruption and politics of anti-Americanism in Central and Eastern Europe.

"The essays that Ivan Krastev and Alan McPherson have gathered together in this little book represent a distinctive contribution to the burgeoning literature on ‘anti-Americanism.’ They cover a remarkable amount of ground, from South-East Asia to Central Europe, and offer many original insights into the origins and nature of contemporary anti-American sentiment. Anyone seeking to understand this subject—which means everyone who cares about the current unstable state of the world—should read The Anti-American Century."

• Introduction The Anti-American Century? Ivan Krastev “Little America” Eastern European Economic Cultures in the EU Janos Matyas Kovacs Anti-Americanism in Latin America and the Caribbean: “False Populism” or Coming Full Circle? Alan McPherson Rethinking Young Anti-Americanism in South Korea Youngshik Bong and Katharine H. S. Moon How “Big Brother” Became the “Great Satan”: Changing Perceptions of the United States among the Muslim Communities of Southeast Asia Farish Ahmad Noor A Plea for Distinctions: Disentangling Anti-Americanism from Anti-Semitism Brian Klug