European Roundtable: Anti-Americanism in Europe

European Roundtable: Anti-Americanism in Europe

“European Anti-Americanism…involves a hostility

that goes far beyond specific policies and entails a

much larger and generalized disdain for America and

Americans. It has elements of ideology and obsession;

it is cultural and irrational; and it is likely to remain

a feature of relations between the United States and

Europe for the foreseeable future.”

RUSSELL A. BERMAN, 'anti-americanism in europe" (2004)

“The aversion against America is becoming greater,

louder, and more decisive. It unifies West Europeans

by now more than any other political emotion, with

the possible exception of their antipathy towards

Israel.”

ANDREI S. MARKOVITS, "Amerika, dich hasst

sich's besser [America: easier to hate]" (2004)

These findings from recent books on anti-Americanism will be the subject of this fall's European Roundtable. Do tensions across the Atlantic run as deep as these quotes suggest? Is there hope

for new common goals and values? Experts with a life-long professional commitment to the analysis of European-American relations will join the discussion.

RUSSELL A. BERMAN

Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution

JOSEF JOFFE

Publisher of “Die Zeit”

ANDREI S. MARKOVITS

Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics

and German Studies, University of Michigan

HANS N. WEILER

Professor Emeritus of Education and Political Science,

Stanford University