Question 3:


It is common for critics to connect America with militarism, imperialism, globalisation and cultural homogenisation. But how viable are such arguments?


See: Barber 2003, van Elteren, Dicken & Taylor in Slater & Taylor; Tomlinson; Tomlinson & Smith in Held & McGrew; M.Ferguson; Mitchell; Forsythe et al; Forsythe; Hunt; Johnson; Bacevich; Kaufmann; Keil; Morgan; Wade;


 


A Select Bibliography


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Bacevich, A. (ed), Imperial Tense, 2003.


Bacevich, A., American Empire, 2002.


Bacevich, A., The new American militarism: how Americans are seduced by war, OUP 2005.


Baker, A., ‘American Power and the Dollar: The Constraints of Technical Authority and Declaratory Policy in the 1990s’, New Political Economy, Vol. 11, No. 1, March 2006


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Cohen, B., “Dollarization Rest in Peace’, International Journal of Political Economy (2005), http://www.polsci.ucsb.edu/faculty/cohen/recent/pdfs/Dollarization_RIP2.pdf


Cohen, B., Toward A Leaderless Currency System, 2008, http://www.polsci.ucsb.edu/faculty/cohen/working/pdfs/Dollar_challengers_rev2.pdf


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Farber, What they think of us: international perceptions of the United States since 9/11, Princeton University Press, 2007 S.Fabbrini, ‘Domestic Sources of European Anti-Americanism’, Government and Opposition, Volume 37 Issue 1 Page 3-14, January 2002

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Forsythe, D. et al, American foreign policy in a globalized world, Routledge, 2006.


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Held, D & A.McGrew, Globalization/Anti-Globalization, Polity, 2003.


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Public Diplomacy


USC Center on Public Diplomacy, http://uscpublicdiplomacy.com/index.php


See other articles besides Nye’s in Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 616, March 2008.


Cull, N., Public Diplomacy Before Gullion: The Evolution of a phrase, http://uscpublicdiplomacy.com/pdfs/gullion.pdf


Graham, S., The (Real)politiks of Culture: U.S. Cultural Diplomacy in Unesco, 1946–1954, Diplomatic History, Vol. 30, No. 2 (April 2006)


Kennedy, L. & Lucas, S., Enduring Freedom: Public Diplomacy and U.S. Foreign Policy, American Quarterly, Volume 57, Number 2, June 2005.


Kuisel R., 1993. Seducing the French: The Dilemma of Americanization, Berkeley & Los Angeles, University of California Press. In the library and available at http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft4w10060w&chunk.id=d0e337&toc.depth=1&toc.id=&brand=ucpress&query=seducing%20the%20french#


Laville, H. & H.Wilford, The US government, citizen groups, and the Cold War : the state-private network,


Melissen, Jan, The New Public Diplomacy: Soft Power in International Relations, Palgrave, 2005.


Melissen, J., Public Diplomacy: Between Theory and Practice’, http://www.clingendael.nl/publications/2006/20061200_cdsp_paper_melissen.pdf


Noble, E., Marshall Plan Films And Americanization, http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05062006-142739/


Nye. J., The Paradox of American Power, Oxford University Press, 2003 (Online at library)


Nye, J., Soft power: the means to success in world politics, Public Affairs, 2004


Nye, J., ‘Think Again: Soft Power”, Foreign Policy, 1 March 2006, http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=7059


Robin, R., Requiem for Public Diplomacy?, American Quarterly, Volume 57, Number 2, June 2005


Scott-Smith, G., US Public Diplomacy and the New American Studies: No Logo, http://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk/back/special/ScottSmith_USPDNewAmStud.pdf


Von Eschen, P., Enduring Public Diplomacy, American Quarterly, Volume 57, Number 2, June 2005


 


 


 



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