Encyclopedia Of Global Perspectives On The United States

Understanding other nations' beliefs about and their attitudes toward the U.S. is crucial to understanding how the United States' actions play out in the global community. Now anthropologist David Levinson and environmentalist Karen Christensen have produced the first reference work devoted to this increasingly crucial aspect of global relations. The Encyclopedia of Global Perspectives on the United States is the first and only comprehensive, authoritative, and unbiased reference work to cover U.S. foreign policy and views of U.S. culture, policy, politics, and government from the individual perspectives of other countries. It contains over 150 country-specific articles, written by scholarly experts, many from those nations. Carefully organized to make all information easy to find, each signed article includes the following information on each country: Tables with key facts about demographics, type of government, media ownership, and trade relations; A history of relations with the United States; Perceptions of U.S. government and policies stemming from events and issues such as: - U.S. foreign policies and promotion of democracy; - Attacks of September 11, 2001; - Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; - U.S. international business; - Regional and global wars; - Human rights. Sidebars of key documents such as treaties and declarations; Extensive bibliography and other useful resources. Because September 11, 2001 and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are major determining factors in nations' perceptions of the U.S., almost every article includes coverage of these events and the foreign policy issues related to them. This level of timeliness, plus the scope and one-of-a-kind distinction of this reference work, assure that this will be a highly desired acquisition for all university, public, and AP-level high school libraries.CQ Press Staff is the author of 'Encyclopedia Of Global Perspectives On The United States ', published 2008 under ISBN 9781568029405 and ISBN 1568029403.