CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Deoancă, Adrian |
|---|---|
| Title | NOUS SOMMES TOUS ANTI-AMERICAINS: AMERICA IN THE EYES OF WEST EUROPEAN LEFT |
| Summary | In the aftermath of the Cold War America remained the sole true superpower through its economic superiority, geo-strategic position and military dominance. Nonetheless, its achievement of global hegemony was not accompanied by a correspondent increase in respect and respectability. On the contrary, history notes a growing hostility for America’s deeds and misdeeds, a sense of disdain linked with its use of military might. In the vacuum of ideology created after the political specter was restructured in the last decade of the 20th century, anti-Americanism seems to become the new world religion. The focus of this paper will be set on the way the Left, and especially the intellectuals that adhered to its principles, have perceived the United States. It is no secret that the Left, ever since it was credited with global salience has had its most critical eye set on the coordinates of America. The history of post-war negative sentiments is dominated by the tropes the Left has betaken. The Marxist rejection of capitalism as the supreme evil, and the American embodiment of liberalism and capitalism had, and still has to some extent, a heavy impact on the Left's grievances pertaining to the United States. Furthermore, in post-history, traditional leftist trademarks like anti-capitalism, anti-colonialism, pacifism, internationalism and environmentalism are recycled and now represent the ideas that primarily stand at the foundation of the new European negative projection of the United States. |
| Supervisor | Kovács András |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/deoanca_adrian.pdf |
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