Misunderstanding Each Other

Hegemonic No More: Western Media, the Rise of Al-Jazeera, and the Influence of Diverse Voices

“…France became a favorite target, and the collateral damage included Belgian‐born French fries, unappetizingly rechristened “freedom fries.” On a more substantive level, former Financial Times editor Richard Lambert (2003:72) observed that the “idea that Europe is declining to the point of irrelevance in military, economic, and political terms frequently recurs in US commentaries.” And the public is provided with little journalistic context for evaluating these commentaries given that news coverage often features simplistic shorthand. Lambert (2003) analyzed the use of country names and related topics in the top 20 US newspapers in 2002. He found that “Germany” and “Schroder” appeared together less often than did “Germany” and “Hitler.” When he looked at “French,” he found that “cooking” was the linked word more often than “politics” or “economics.”…”

Strategic Non-cooperation as Soft Balancing: Why Iraq was not Just about Iraq

“…The extensive debate about the transatlantic rift tends to focus on the substantive sources of the disagreements: divergence in norms (Risse, 2003), Judith Kelley Strategic Non-cooperation as Soft Balancing 154 capability gaps, and the variation in domestic and geopolitical interests (Walt, 1998;Asmus and Pollack, 2002;Kupchan, 2002Kupchan, , 2003Cooper, 2003a, b;Cox, 2003;Daalder, 2001;Hoffmann, 2003;Joffe, 2003;Kagan, 2003a, b;Lambert, 2003;Pond, 2003;Gordon and Shapiro, 2004). These are essential elements of the transatlantic relationship.…”

Unipolaridade, governabilidade global e intervenção unilateral anglo-americana no Iraque

“…Deste modo, produz-se um alinhamento político bastante diferente dentro das principais democracias no mundo pós-11 de Setembro, já que os grupos minoritários dentro da elite americana (multilateralistas-moderados e multilateralistas) são apoiados pelo coração das elites dos outros países (Lambert, 2003;Maravcsik, 2003). Isto não foi assim durante a primeira fase da Guerra Fria quando a doutrina de contenção do comunismo das elites americanas era apoiada pelo núcleo das elites européias.…”