The Uncertain Superpower

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: The Uncertain Superpower ‘After September 11th’

   1. Introduction: The Uncertain Superpower ‘After September 11th’

      • Bernhard May

      Pages 9-13

3. Constitutional and Institutional Dimensions: Executive, Legislative, Public Opinion and the Media

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Constitutional and Institutional Dimensions: White House-Congress Relations After the End of the ‘Imperial Presidency’

      • Stanley R. Sloan

      Pages 17-27

   3. Divided Government: The Democratic Dilemma of Making U.S. Foreign Policy

      • Michaela Hönicke Moore

      Pages 29-40

   4. Apathy, Interest, and the Politics of American Foreign Policy

      • James M. Lindsay

      Pages 41-55

   5. Domestic Sources of US Foreign Policy

      • Gebhard Schweigler

      Pages 57-66

4. U.S. Leadership and the Reform of Western Security Institutions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67

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   2. “U.S. Leadership and the Reform of Western Security Institutions: NATO Enlargement and ESDP”

      • Peter W. Rodman

      Pages 69-81

   3. Recasting the Atlantic Bargain

      • Charles A. Kupchan

      Pages 83-92

   4. U.S. Leadership and the Reform of Western Security Institutions: NATO Enlargement and ESDP

      • Peter Rudolf

      Pages 93-101

5. U.S. Leadership in Crisis: The Balkans, Russia and China

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

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   2. ‘With One Hand Tied Behind Our Back’: Collective Memory, The Media And US Intervention From The Gulf War To Afghanistan

      • David Ryan

      Pages 105-120

   3. U.S. Policy Toward The Balkans: The Role Of Domestic Factors And Lessons Learned

      • Paul S. Shoup

      Pages 121-131

   4. U.S. Leadership and Domestic Factors in Dealing with Russia During the Clinton Administration

      • Thomas E. Graham Jr.

      Pages 133-148

   5. Congressional Politics and U.S. China Policy 1996–2000

      • Susan L. Shirk

      Pages 149-158

6. U.S. Leadership in International Institutions and Multilateral Regime-Building

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159

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   2. False Choices: Unilateralism, Multilateralism, and U.S. Foreign Policy

      • Edward C. Luck

      Pages 161-183

   3. The Lack of U.S. leadership in Climate Change Diplomacy

      • Petra Holtrup

      Pages 185-207

7. Back Matter

   Pages 208-212

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the republican party, especially within those groups that supported President Bush. There was a strong backlash in Europe against this more unilateralist and more isolationist foreign policy of the Bush administration. Transatlantic re­ lations went through a difficult phase in the Spring of 2001, each side criti­ cizing the other for doing the wrong thing and for damaging transatlantic re­ lations. In Europe, President Bush was not seen as a world leader, but rather as the governor from Texas. Europeans criticized the Bush administration for not accepting the role as the only remaining superpower and for not accepting the global responsibility linked to being a global power. Transatlantic rela­ tions were at a low point in June of 2001 when President Bush came to Europe the first time. All of that changed overnight with the terror attacks of September 11, 200 I. Millions of Europeans demonstrated their solidarity with the American people. In Berlin, for example, approximately 200,000 people took part in a demonstration in front of the Brandenburg Gate on September 14 to show their solidarity with the American people. International terrorism was the new common challenge. For several months it seemed like the old trans­ atlantic quarrels would be forgotten. There was a new spirit in transatlantic relations, a new commitment to fight common enemies and protect common values. The question was, how long would it last.

• Beziehung
• Demokratie
• Hegemonie
• Kultur
• Nation
• Transformation
• Weltgesellschaft
• foreign policy
• hegemony
• international relations

• German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Berlin, Germany

  Bernhard May, Michaela Hönicke Moore

• European History and Transatlantic Relations, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Germany

  Michaela Hönicke Moore

Dr. Bernhard May, deputy director of the research institute and head of the USA/Transatlantic Relations program at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Berlin; Dr. Michaela Hönicke-Moore, DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

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