The United States and the World
from Imitation to Challenge
Edited by: Andrzej Mania, Łukasz Wordliczek
Pages: 364
Book format: 16,5x23,5 cm
Publication date: 2010
Publication date: 20.12.2010
E-book publication date: 20.02.2023
Book description
The conference “The United States and the World: from Imitation to Challenge” was meant to gather those interested in various aspects of the mutual connections between the United States and the world. It concentrated on the problem of the model of American democracy, the presidential system, American politics, American society, American culture and the world's reflections about them from imitation to challenge. For this, there was an invitation to scholars from many research fields: political science, philosophy, law, culture studies, economy, and sociology. It was a result of our vision of American Studies as an interdisciplinary effort. And so, thanks to the rich and diverse approaches of the participants, our vision turned out to be true.
The effect of the conference is reflected in the contributions that follow in this volume and in the rich, interdisciplinary debate over the American impact on the world, integration in Pax Americana and patterns of integration in other parts of the world, different and/or similar approaches to challenges to international order, and last but not least the issue of continuity and change in politics. Here one also needs to mention the ever-present debate on the American “export” of values: separation of church and state, human rights, the idea of sovereignty, the rule of separation of powers, modern federalism, democratization approaches, Americanism, American Studies dilemmas, American exceptionalism, uniqueness in contemporary American society, and patterns in foregin policy.
The effect of the conference is reflected in the contributions that follow in this volume and in the rich, interdisciplinary debate over the American impact on the world, integration in Pax Americana and patterns of integration in other parts of the world, different and/or similar approaches to challenges to international order, and last but not least the issue of continuity and change in politics. Here one also needs to mention the ever-present debate on the American “export” of values: separation of church and state, human rights, the idea of sovereignty, the rule of separation of powers, modern federalism, democratization approaches, Americanism, American Studies dilemmas, American exceptionalism, uniqueness in contemporary American society, and patterns in foregin policy.
Language
English
Edition
first
Edited by
Andrzej Mania
, Łukasz Wordliczek
, Łukasz Wordliczek
Cover design
Marcin Bruchnalski
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction 7
I. Contemporary American Society and Politics
Małgorzata Dziekońska, Connections in the Workplace as a Way of Accumulating Social Capital by Polish Immigrants in the USA 13
David J. Jackson and Robert Mominee, Culture, Socialization, and Policy 25
Marta Koval, How to Make Stories about the Iraqi War: “Commodified” Memory and Ethical Dilemmas of Democratic Violence 39
Grzegorz Mazurkiewicz, Bill Armaline, Kathy Farber, In Search of Democratic Education. Creating Myth, False Promise or Bright Future? 47
Bohdan Szklarski, Windows, Streams, and Organized Disorder: Presidential Struggle for Control of Political Agenda 59
II. Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Transatlantic Encounters
Crister Garrett, To Weimar and Back? Poland, the United States, and the Transatlantic Security Space 75
David A. Jones, A Clash of Expectations: Sorting Out Where East Meets West After The Polish Missile Crisis 87
David A. Jones and Joanna Waluk, The Polish Missile Crisis: Transatlantic Tensions since 2008 Among Poland, the Ukraine, the United States, and the Russian Federation 101
Zinovia Lialiouti, Challenging Americanism: The Public Debate about the “American Way of Life” in Cold-War and Post-Cold-War Greece 115
Cristina Stanca-Mustea, Universal Pictures: Propaganda – Export – Exchange 137
III. Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Foreign Policy
Karol Derwich, Washington Consensus: Dead or Alive? 155
Dominik Kopiński, What Drives U.S. Official Development Assistance (And Why It’s not Development)? 165
Grzegorz Nycz, Confronting the Global Frontier: The Promotion of American Democracy as a Challenge to the Multipolar World Order 179
Piotr Waldemar Pietrzak, American “Soft Power” after George W. Bush’s Presidency 187
Andrzej Polus, Norms and Values in American International Relations Theories 195
Małgorzata Zachara, American Strategy Toward Global Governance. New Leadership or Crisis of Identity? 209
IV. Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Impact of American Values
Paweł Laidler, Lack of Arguments or a Common Sense: Reasons of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Preferences to International Community in the Process of Constitutional Interpretation 223
Renata Nowaczewska, American Private Foundations: Global Philanthropy or Global Hegemony 241
Jolanta Szymkowska-Bartyzel, William Thomas Stead and His 1901 Vision of the Americanized World 251
Marius Văcărelu, Th e United State’s Influence in the Legal Systems of Eastern Europe: Romania’s Right to a Good Administration 263
Tomasz Wieciech, American Concept of Federal Union and Its Worldwide Influence 271
V. Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Exceptionalism and Democracy Promotion
Benjamin P. Greene, American Exceptionalism: Challenges and Renewals 287
Patricia S. Hart, Reclaiming the American Dream: Strategies for Recapturing the Rhetoric of Exceptionalism in Barack Obama’s Presidential Media Campaign 293
Karsten Senkbeil, Baseball and American Exceptionalism 307
VI. Continuity and Change
Krzysztof Michałek , Th e Power of Change vs. the Power of Continuity: What Might be Achieved by the U.S. President in the First 100 Days of His Presidency? (On George W. Bush and Barack Obama’s Examples) 323
Monika Różalska, Continuity and Change in Sino-American Relations in the Light of ‘Complex’ Interdependence Theory 337
José Luis Valdés-Ugalde, Bernadette G. Vega Sánchez, Th e Obama Presidency and the New Roads for the American Way: Has the Past Been Left Behind? 355
I. Contemporary American Society and Politics
Małgorzata Dziekońska, Connections in the Workplace as a Way of Accumulating Social Capital by Polish Immigrants in the USA 13
David J. Jackson and Robert Mominee, Culture, Socialization, and Policy 25
Marta Koval, How to Make Stories about the Iraqi War: “Commodified” Memory and Ethical Dilemmas of Democratic Violence 39
Grzegorz Mazurkiewicz, Bill Armaline, Kathy Farber, In Search of Democratic Education. Creating Myth, False Promise or Bright Future? 47
Bohdan Szklarski, Windows, Streams, and Organized Disorder: Presidential Struggle for Control of Political Agenda 59
II. Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Transatlantic Encounters
Crister Garrett, To Weimar and Back? Poland, the United States, and the Transatlantic Security Space 75
David A. Jones, A Clash of Expectations: Sorting Out Where East Meets West After The Polish Missile Crisis 87
David A. Jones and Joanna Waluk, The Polish Missile Crisis: Transatlantic Tensions since 2008 Among Poland, the Ukraine, the United States, and the Russian Federation 101
Zinovia Lialiouti, Challenging Americanism: The Public Debate about the “American Way of Life” in Cold-War and Post-Cold-War Greece 115
Cristina Stanca-Mustea, Universal Pictures: Propaganda – Export – Exchange 137
III. Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Foreign Policy
Karol Derwich, Washington Consensus: Dead or Alive? 155
Dominik Kopiński, What Drives U.S. Official Development Assistance (And Why It’s not Development)? 165
Grzegorz Nycz, Confronting the Global Frontier: The Promotion of American Democracy as a Challenge to the Multipolar World Order 179
Piotr Waldemar Pietrzak, American “Soft Power” after George W. Bush’s Presidency 187
Andrzej Polus, Norms and Values in American International Relations Theories 195
Małgorzata Zachara, American Strategy Toward Global Governance. New Leadership or Crisis of Identity? 209
IV. Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Impact of American Values
Paweł Laidler, Lack of Arguments or a Common Sense: Reasons of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Preferences to International Community in the Process of Constitutional Interpretation 223
Renata Nowaczewska, American Private Foundations: Global Philanthropy or Global Hegemony 241
Jolanta Szymkowska-Bartyzel, William Thomas Stead and His 1901 Vision of the Americanized World 251
Marius Văcărelu, Th e United State’s Influence in the Legal Systems of Eastern Europe: Romania’s Right to a Good Administration 263
Tomasz Wieciech, American Concept of Federal Union and Its Worldwide Influence 271
V. Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Exceptionalism and Democracy Promotion
Benjamin P. Greene, American Exceptionalism: Challenges and Renewals 287
Patricia S. Hart, Reclaiming the American Dream: Strategies for Recapturing the Rhetoric of Exceptionalism in Barack Obama’s Presidential Media Campaign 293
Karsten Senkbeil, Baseball and American Exceptionalism 307
VI. Continuity and Change
Krzysztof Michałek , Th e Power of Change vs. the Power of Continuity: What Might be Achieved by the U.S. President in the First 100 Days of His Presidency? (On George W. Bush and Barack Obama’s Examples) 323
Monika Różalska, Continuity and Change in Sino-American Relations in the Light of ‘Complex’ Interdependence Theory 337
José Luis Valdés-Ugalde, Bernadette G. Vega Sánchez, Th e Obama Presidency and the New Roads for the American Way: Has the Past Been Left Behind? 355
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction 7
I. Contemporary American Society and Politics
Małgorzata Dziekońska, Connections in the Workplace as a Way of Accumulating Social Capital by Polish Immigrants in the USA 13
David J. Jackson and Robert Mominee, Culture, Socialization, and Policy 25
Marta Koval, How to Make Stories about the Iraqi War: “Commodified” Memory and Ethical Dilemmas of Democratic Violence 39
Grzegorz Mazurkiewicz, Bill Armaline, Kathy Farber, In Search of Democratic Education. Creating Myth, False Promise or Bright Future? 47
Bohdan Szklarski, Windows, Streams, and Organized Disorder: Presidential Struggle for Control of Political Agenda 59
II. Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Transatlantic Encounters
Crister Garrett, To Weimar and Back? Poland, the United States, and the Transatlantic Security Space 75
David A. Jones, A Clash of Expectations: Sorting Out Where East Meets West After The Polish Missile Crisis 87
David A. Jones and Joanna Waluk, The Polish Missile Crisis: Transatlantic Tensions since 2008 Among Poland, the Ukraine, the United States, and the Russian Federation 101
Zinovia Lialiouti, Challenging Americanism: The Public Debate about the “American Way of Life” in Cold-War and Post-Cold-War Greece 115
Cristina Stanca-Mustea, Universal Pictures: Propaganda – Export – Exchange 137
III. Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Foreign Policy
Karol Derwich, Washington Consensus: Dead or Alive? 155
Dominik Kopiński, What Drives U.S. Official Development Assistance (And Why It’s not Development)? 165
Grzegorz Nycz, Confronting the Global Frontier: The Promotion of American Democracy as a Challenge to the Multipolar World Order 179
Piotr Waldemar Pietrzak, American “Soft Power” after George W. Bush’s Presidency 187
Andrzej Polus, Norms and Values in American International Relations Theories 195
Małgorzata Zachara, American Strategy Toward Global Governance. New Leadership or Crisis of Identity? 209
IV. Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Impact of American Values
Paweł Laidler, Lack of Arguments or a Common Sense: Reasons of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Preferences to International Community in the Process of Constitutional Interpretation 223
Renata Nowaczewska, American Private Foundations: Global Philanthropy or Global Hegemony 241
Jolanta Szymkowska-Bartyzel, William Thomas Stead and His 1901 Vision of the Americanized World 251
Marius Văcărelu, Th e United State’s Influence in the Legal Systems of Eastern Europe: Romania’s Right to a Good Administration 263
Tomasz Wieciech, American Concept of Federal Union and Its Worldwide Influence 271
V. Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Exceptionalism and Democracy Promotion
Benjamin P. Greene, American Exceptionalism: Challenges and Renewals 287
Patricia S. Hart, Reclaiming the American Dream: Strategies for Recapturing the Rhetoric of Exceptionalism in Barack Obama’s Presidential Media Campaign 293
Karsten Senkbeil, Baseball and American Exceptionalism 307
VI. Continuity and Change
Krzysztof Michałek , Th e Power of Change vs. the Power of Continuity: What Might be Achieved by the U.S. President in the First 100 Days of His Presidency? (On George W. Bush and Barack Obama’s Examples) 323
Monika Różalska, Continuity and Change in Sino-American Relations in the Light of ‘Complex’ Interdependence Theory 337
José Luis Valdés-Ugalde, Bernadette G. Vega Sánchez, Th e Obama Presidency and the New Roads for the American Way: Has the Past Been Left Behind? 355
I. Contemporary American Society and Politics
Małgorzata Dziekońska, Connections in the Workplace as a Way of Accumulating Social Capital by Polish Immigrants in the USA 13
David J. Jackson and Robert Mominee, Culture, Socialization, and Policy 25
Marta Koval, How to Make Stories about the Iraqi War: “Commodified” Memory and Ethical Dilemmas of Democratic Violence 39
Grzegorz Mazurkiewicz, Bill Armaline, Kathy Farber, In Search of Democratic Education. Creating Myth, False Promise or Bright Future? 47
Bohdan Szklarski, Windows, Streams, and Organized Disorder: Presidential Struggle for Control of Political Agenda 59
II. Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Transatlantic Encounters
Crister Garrett, To Weimar and Back? Poland, the United States, and the Transatlantic Security Space 75
David A. Jones, A Clash of Expectations: Sorting Out Where East Meets West After The Polish Missile Crisis 87
David A. Jones and Joanna Waluk, The Polish Missile Crisis: Transatlantic Tensions since 2008 Among Poland, the Ukraine, the United States, and the Russian Federation 101
Zinovia Lialiouti, Challenging Americanism: The Public Debate about the “American Way of Life” in Cold-War and Post-Cold-War Greece 115
Cristina Stanca-Mustea, Universal Pictures: Propaganda – Export – Exchange 137
III. Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Foreign Policy
Karol Derwich, Washington Consensus: Dead or Alive? 155
Dominik Kopiński, What Drives U.S. Official Development Assistance (And Why It’s not Development)? 165
Grzegorz Nycz, Confronting the Global Frontier: The Promotion of American Democracy as a Challenge to the Multipolar World Order 179
Piotr Waldemar Pietrzak, American “Soft Power” after George W. Bush’s Presidency 187
Andrzej Polus, Norms and Values in American International Relations Theories 195
Małgorzata Zachara, American Strategy Toward Global Governance. New Leadership or Crisis of Identity? 209
IV. Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Impact of American Values
Paweł Laidler, Lack of Arguments or a Common Sense: Reasons of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Preferences to International Community in the Process of Constitutional Interpretation 223
Renata Nowaczewska, American Private Foundations: Global Philanthropy or Global Hegemony 241
Jolanta Szymkowska-Bartyzel, William Thomas Stead and His 1901 Vision of the Americanized World 251
Marius Văcărelu, Th e United State’s Influence in the Legal Systems of Eastern Europe: Romania’s Right to a Good Administration 263
Tomasz Wieciech, American Concept of Federal Union and Its Worldwide Influence 271
V. Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Exceptionalism and Democracy Promotion
Benjamin P. Greene, American Exceptionalism: Challenges and Renewals 287
Patricia S. Hart, Reclaiming the American Dream: Strategies for Recapturing the Rhetoric of Exceptionalism in Barack Obama’s Presidential Media Campaign 293
Karsten Senkbeil, Baseball and American Exceptionalism 307
VI. Continuity and Change
Krzysztof Michałek , Th e Power of Change vs. the Power of Continuity: What Might be Achieved by the U.S. President in the First 100 Days of His Presidency? (On George W. Bush and Barack Obama’s Examples) 323
Monika Różalska, Continuity and Change in Sino-American Relations in the Light of ‘Complex’ Interdependence Theory 337
José Luis Valdés-Ugalde, Bernadette G. Vega Sánchez, Th e Obama Presidency and the New Roads for the American Way: Has the Past Been Left Behind? 355
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