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Notes 1. The conventional wisdom about anti-Americanism is articulated in its most elaborate form in Hollander (1995), Revel (2003), and Rubin and Rubin (2004). 2. The main referents are Converse (1964), Zaller (1992) and Alvarez and Brehm (2002). 3. I rely upon the work of Converse (1964), Zaller (1992), and Alvarez and Brehm (2002) in particular. 4. The text of the House hearings on the image of America in the Arab world is available at http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS39591. Information on the conference on anti-Americanism sponsored by the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research is available at http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/nea/sasia/afghan/ text/0828state.htm. Three contenders for the U.S. presidency, Senator McCain on the Republican side and Senators Clinton and Obama on the Democratic side, stated that the restoration of U.S. standing and trust abroad would be a high priority of their administrations (Clinton, 2007; McCain, 2007; Obama, 2007). 5. The text of the Arbella Covenant is available at http://history.hanover.edu/ texts/winthmod.html. 6. These words, equally immortal as Winthrop’s, are those of President Abraham Lincoln from the Annual Message to Congress of 1862, available at http://showcase .netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/congress.htm. 7. The search finds the articles that included the word anti-Americanism in their text. 8. This allusion to the opening lines of the Communist Manifesto was also used by Stephen Haseler (1985, 1) in a pamphlet published in 1985, which revealingly underscores how the contemporary debate on anti-Americanism shares themes and metaphors with previous debates. 9. With one exception, as Hobsbawn (1994) quickly added, and Markovits and Hellerman (2001) elegantly documented: sports. 10. Henry Luce’s celebrated essay was published in the 17 February 1941 issue of Life. It is reprinted in Luce (1999), from which the quoted passages are taken. 11. The 2002 Pew Global Attitudes Project survey included 44 countries. The two countries excluded from this count are the United States itself and China where questions about the United States were not asked. The surveys were conducted through face-to-face or telephone interviews conducted mostly in July and August of 2002. The interviews were conducted in September and October of 2002 in Egypt, Ghana, India, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Lebanon, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, and Uganda. 12. The index of anti-Americanism, which reflects both the presence and the intensity of anti-American opinion, is formally defined in the on-line Appendix (see note 14 below). The variables plotted in Figure 1.1 include levels of development, regime type, U.S. investments, trade dependence, U.S. economic aid, U.S. troop presence , voting similarity at the United Nations, pro–U.S. elite discourse, cultural connections through presence of foreign students in the United States, the presence of Peace Corps programs in a country, the extent of U.S. military assistance, and the percentage of Muslim population. In the on-line Appendix, I report the results of a regression model that includes all these variables. 13. The 2005 wave of the Pew Global Attitudes Survey was conducted in May of 2005 as allegations about the desecration of the Quran at Guantanamo Bay were reported worldwide. The Pew researchers analyzed the responses given before and after May 11, 2005—the day the allegations became public knowledge—and found that the percentage of favorable responses dropped from 30% to 16% in Pakistan and increased from 9% to 26% in Jordan; they were unable to make comparisons in the remaining countries. See Pew Global Attitudes Project 2005, 13. 14. The on-line Appendix is available on my faculty webpage at Vanderbilt University (currently at http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/site/d4M7ja) and on the book webpage at Johns Hopkins University Press (at http://www.press.jhu.edu/). 15. In an address before a joint session of the Congress on the termination of the Gulf War in March 1991, President George H. W. Bush proclaimed, “Now, we can see a new world coming into view. A world in which there is the very real prospect of a new world order. In the words of Winston Churchill, a world order in which ‘the principles of justice and fair play protect the weak against the strong.’ A world where the United Nations, freed from cold war stalemate, is poised to fulfill the historic vision of its founders. A world in which freedom and respect for human rights find a...

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