February 16-20, 2009
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Peter Katzenstein, PhD
“Peter J. Katzenstein is the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. His research and teaching lie at the intersection of the fields of international relations and comparative politics. Katzenstein's work addresses issues of political economy, security and culture in world politics. His current research interests focus on the politics of civilizational states on questions of public diplomacy, law, religion, and popular culture; the role of anti-imperial sentiments, including anti-Americanism; regionalism in world politics; and German politics.” Read more at href="http://www.pkatzenstein.org/home">.
Dr. Katzenstein is also the current President-Elect of the American Political Science Association, and has been named by The Economist as the most influential scholar in international political economy.
These are some of Professor Katzenstein's recent books:
1) 2006 [Anti-Americanism in World Politics] (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006), coedited with Robert O. Keohane.
2) 2006 [Beyond Japan: The Dynamics of East Asian Regionalism] (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006), coedited with Takashi Shiraishi.
3) 2006 [Religion in an Expanding Europe] (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), coedited with Timothy A. Byrnes.
4) 2005 [A World of Regions: Asia and Europe in the American Imperium] (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2005). Chinese and Japanese translations forthcoming.
ANTI-AMERICANISM
A genealogy of anti-Americanism
By James W. Ceaser
“America's rise to the status of the world's premier power, while inspiring much admiration, has also provoked widespread feelings of suspicion and hostility. In a recent and widely discussed book on America, Après L'Empire, credited by many with having influenced the position of the French government on the war in Iraq, Emmanuel Todd writes: "A single threat to global instability weighs on the world today: America, which from a protector has become a predator." A similar mistrust of American motives was clearly in evidence in the European media's coverage of the war. To have followed the war on television and in the newspapers in Europe was to have witnessed a different event than that seen by most Americans. During the few days before America's attack on Baghdad, European commentators displayed a barely concealed glee - almost what the Germans call schadenfreude - at the prospect of American forces being bogged down in a long and difficult engagement. Max Gallo, in the weekly magazine Le Point, drew the typical conclusion about American arrogance and ignorance: "The Americans, carried away by the hubris of their military power, seemed to have forgotten that not everything can be handled by the force of arms ... that peoples have a history, a religion, a country."
Time will tell, of course, if Gallo was even near correct in his doubts about U.S. policy. But the haste with which he arrived at such sweeping conclusions leads one to suspect that they were based far more on a pre-existing view of America than on an analysis of the situation at hand. Indeed, they were an expression of one of the most powerful modes of thought in the world today: anti-Americanism.”
Read the rest of the article at: http://sprott.carleton.ca/~ianlee/AOI/CaeserGenealogyofantiAmericanism.doc
Chapter 1
Varieties of anti-Americanism: A Framework for Analysis
Peter J. Katzenstein and Robert O. Keohane
“Anti-Americanism has a long historical pedigree dating back to the 18th century. Since World War II such sentiment has waxed and waned in various parts of the world. American GI’s were welcomed widely in the 1940s as liberators of a Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and as protectors of a Europe that felt threatened by the Soviet Union in the 1950s. Yet a few years later “the ugly American” became an object of scorn and derision.2 In the second half of the 1960s the U.S. war in Vietnam became a rallying cry for a powerful anti-war movement that fueled anti-American sentiments in Europe, Latin America and Asia. In the early 1980s mass protests erupted against NATO’s missile deployment plans and the military build-up of the Reagan administration. Recently, intense expressions of anti-American sentiment – both in public opinion polls and in political demonstrations – have been evident around the globe. Anti-Americanism is again front page news, and Americans are perplexed by its global spread.
One way of beginning to think about expressions of negative attitudes is to ask whether they are based on views of “what the United States is” – the fundamental values and attitudes of American society – or “what the United States does” – its policies, particularly its foreign policies. Negative views of what the United States is are less likely to change, as American policy changes, than are negative views of what the United States is doing. People who are negative about the United States itself are more likely to be biased, as we define the term below, than those who are only critical of a set of American policies. It is particularly important, therefore, in an investigation of anti-Americanism to distinguish between is and does, and between opinion and bias. Part of the task of this chapter is to explore this distinction.”
Read the rest of this chapter here: http://www.princeton.edu/~rkeohane/publications/AntiAmerInWPCh1.pdf
OBAMANIA
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Jon Stewart and the Daily Show on “Obamania”- January 29, 2007
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=81465&title=obamania
HOW CAN I GET INVOLVED?
A list of classes at UB with themes corresponding to the Feature Event:
Undergraduate Classes
* AAS 355 - Race, Class & Society (reg. # 051090)
* WS 421 - Democracy and Gender (reg. # 390852)
* HIS 340 - Topics in German History (one of the speaker’s interests) (reg. # 279572)
* HIS 368 - Mod Japanese History (one of the speaker’s interests) (reg. # 313393)
* HIS 403 - American Reformers (reg. # 012968)
* HIS 419 - American Military Experience (reg. # 324238)
* HIS 480 - Early America Legal & Constitution Top (reg. # 315748)
* JLS 132 - Local Government Law & Politics (reg. # 031096)
* PSC 218 - Law Morality Authority (reg. # 203550)
* PSC 307 - Political Parties (reg. # 065450)
* PSC 326 - War & International Security (reg. # 085330)
* PSC 314 - Public Policy Making (reg. # 450639)
* PSC 311 - State Politics (reg. # 075316)
* PSC 335 - American Foreign Policy (reg. # 373373)
* PSC 330 - International Relations Problems (reg. # 131928)
* PSC 412 - Comparative Political Institutions (reg. # 451856)
* PSC 436 - Citizen Participation (reg. # 173473)
* UGC 211 - American Pluralism (reg. # 434275; 110456; 006880; 149359; 410868; 157382; 367171;
287447; 293661; 050679; 015096)
Majors at UB related to the weekly theme:
Political Science: http://www.polsci.buffalo.edu/
The Political Science department offers a concentration in American Politics and Public Affairs
History:http://www.history.buffalo.edu/
American Studies: http://www.americanstudies.buffalo.edu/
African-American Studies: http://wings.buffalo.edu/academic/department/AandL/aas/
Sociology: http://sociology.buffalo.edu/
Clubs at UB related to the weekly theme:
Check out these clubs on-campus whose members share interests related to the political studies and the relationship of the US to the larger international community:
• Political Science SA
• College Democrats
• College Republicans
• African-American Studies SA
For more information on these clubs and who to contact to get involved, please visit: http://clubs.buffalosa.org/default.aspx
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