United States Contested

<p>Why and how is America contested by Europe? This new book answers this question and contributes to a better understanding of contemporary transatlantic tensions. </p><p>Adopting different theoretical perspectives the leading contributors to this volume assess the European discontent with America and relate this to the unilateral turn of US foreign policy in the twenty-first century. American unilateralism is interpreted by all the authors as the expression of a new conservative nationalism which has been growing in the country since the 1970s and became culturally hegemonic after 9/11. They explore the following key areas:</p><ul> <li>the rise of American conservative nationalism</li> <li>US foreign policy</li> <li>transatlantic relations</li> <li>anti-Americanism</li> <li>the Iraq War</li> <li>the future of American political and cultural hegemony.</li> </ul><p>This book will be vital reading for students of international relations foreign policy analysis American and European politics.</p>