TABLE OF CONTENTS
Andrzej Mania, Foreword 7
Part I. U.S. Foreign Policy
Anna Tomaszczyk, „Change we can believe in”? Obama’s Presidency and the U.S.-German Relations 11
Konrad Błażejowski, Taking a Bow Too Seriously: Power and Etiquette in the U.S.-Japanese Relations 25
Przemysław Furgacz, Obama’s Policy toward Iran and Its Nuclear Program 37
Katarzyna Klatka-Urbaniak, Miłosz Papla, Central and Eastern Europe in the Foreign Policy of the United States of America under President Barack Obama. Case Study: Poland 47
Monika Różalska, Emerging of Obama’s Policy towards Africa – African Hopes vs. American
Pragmatism 59
Part II. Political Processes and Political Institutions
Maciej Turek, The Vice Presidency of Joe Biden. An Early Assessment 73
Kryštof Kozák, Obama and the Supreme Court: Th e Clash to Come? 83
Part III. Social Dimension of “Obama’s America”
Steven A. Tuch, Michael Hughes, Whites’ Racial Policy Attitudes in the Twenty-First Century: The Continuing Significance of Racial Resentment 97
Michał Różycki, A Conspiracy of Hope: Paranoid (re)Interpretations of Barack Obama’s Early Presidency 119
Aleksandra Niemczyńska, Changing Image? An Analysis of Obama’s Characteristics According to 2007–2010 Survey Reports 129
Anna Dziduszko-Rościszewska, Is America Waiting for Another Tea Party? Tea Party Movement 145