ABSTRACT
IN THE YEAR THE UNITED STATES went to war against Iraq, readerssaw numerous articles in the American press on anti-Americanism in Europe. But what about anti-Europeanism in the United States? Consider the following:
And,
Or, from a rather different corner,
Statements such as these brought me to the United States-to Boston, New York, Washington, and the Bible Belt states of Kansas and Missouri-to look at changing American attitudes toward Europe in the shadow of a possible second Gulf War. Virtually everyone I spoke to on the East Coast agreed that there is a level of irritation with Europe and Europeans higher even than at the last memorable peak, in the early 1980s.
