ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the recent resurgence of anti-Europeanism and the parallel emergence of Euroskepticism in American attitudes and the political debate have been fuelled by a combination of many interspersed international and domestic factors. The transformed political and economic international environment since the end of the Cold War has provided the preeminent source as well as the context for the rise of these phenomena. Such structural changes helped redefine the traditional images and expectations that European and Americans had of each other. They also provided domestic political forces in Europe and the US the opportunity to further old agendas and develop new ones inspired by or leading to anti-Europeanism and Euroskepticism. The new economic focus of transatlantic relations revealed a Europe unable to reform its archaic economy and welfare state, but nevertheless positioning itself as a rival to the US in strategic industries, a determined opponent in trade disputes and a springboard for the anti-globalization movement.
