Of paradise, power, and pachyderms

Political Science Quarterly

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 239-256

  Nincic, Miroslav ^a   Datta, Monti Narayan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 34547217439     PISSN: 00323195     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1538-165X.2007.tb00598.x     Document Type: Review

References (26)

1. Henry Kissinger, Does America Need a Foreign Policy? (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001), 33.
2. Robert Kagan, Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003), 1.
3. Daniel Pipes, "Europe vs. America," New York Post, 14 January 2003, 18.
4. Kagan, Of Paradise and Power, 3.
5. Timothy Garton Ash, "The New Anti-Europeanism in America" in Tod Lindberg, ed., Beyond Paradise and Power: Europe, America and the Future of a Troubled Partnership (New York: Routledge, 2005), 122.
6. Program on International Policy Attitudes, 23-Nation Poll: Who Will Lead the World? April 2005, accessed at http://www.pipa.org/OnlineReports/ EvalWorldPowers/LeadWorld_Apr05/LeadWorld_Apr05_rpt.pdf.
7. The concept "national interest" is analyzed in Miroslav Nincic, "The National Interest and Its Interpretation," Review of Politics 61 (Winter 1999): 29-56.
8. Studies of grade school children have revealed that in most cases, partisan preferences are acquired by the fourth grade. Fred I. Greenstein, Children and Politics (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1965), 81.
9. John W. Bigby, Politics, Parties, and Elections in America (Belmont, CA: Thomas Wadsworth, 2003), 24-62.
10. Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, Evenly Divided and Increasingly Polarized (Washington DC: 2003), 2-3.
11. The political and policy attitudes scale is a composite of responses to twenty-four questions. The social and personal attitudes scale is a composite of responses to seventeen questions. For details, see Pew Research Center, Evenly Divided, 78-82.
12. Ole Holsti, Public Opinion and American Foreign Policy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996), 133.
13. Geoffrey C. Layman and Thomas M. Carsey, "Party Polarization and Conflict Extension in the American Electorate," American Journal of Political Science 46 (October 2002): 286-303.
14. James M. Lindsay, "The New Partisanship: The Changed Politics of American Foreign Policy," Foreign Policy Agenda 5 (September 2000): 1-15.
15. The exact wording for the "war" question is "Is war an outmoded way of settling differences between nations, or is it sometimes necessary?" The exact wording for the "military strength" question is "Do you agree/disagree with the following: The best way to ensure peace is through military strength."
16. This is the exact wording used in the survey.
17. There is a better awareness of this on the European side. See especially Ronald Asmus, Philip P. Everts, and Pierangelo Isernia, "Across the Atlantic and the Political Aisle: The Double Divide in US-European Relations," German Marshall Fund of the United States, August 2004.
18. Pew Research Center, Evenly Divided, 27.
19. Kagan, Of Paradise and Power, 6.
20. The Transatlantic Trends 2004 was a project of the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Compagnia di San Paolo (Italy) with additional support from the Luso-American Foundation (Portugal), Fundacion BBVA (Spain) and the Institute for Public Affairs (Slovakia). The fieldwork was coordinated by TNS Opinion and Social.
21. The sample sizes for the survey were as follows: The European sample consisted of responses from nine nations, with the following sample sizes: Germany (N = 1,001), France (N = 1,006), Italy (N = 1,002), Netherlands (N = 1,002), Portugal N = 1,003), Spain (N = 1,000), United Kingdom (N = 1,000), Poland (N = 1,000), and Slovakia (N = 1,000). Political party identifier sample sizes were as follows: U.S. Republicans (N = 320), U.S. non-Republicans, comprised of Democrats (N = 320) and independents (N = 250), for an aggregate sample size of N = 570, and UK Conservatives (N = 155).
22. Condoleezza Rice, "Promoting the National Interest," Foreign Affairs 79 (January/February 2000): 45-62.
23. Madeleine Albright, "Why the United Nations Is Indispensable," Foreign Policy 138 (September/October 2003): 16-26.
24. The fact that more Europeans and non-Republicans consider the Arab-Israeli conflict an important threat is interesting in light of the role U.S. support of Israel has played in fomenting anti-American terrorism.
25. UK Conservatives were identified by their expressed voting intentions.
26. For an analysis of the character of Congressional partisan politics during the height of the Cold War, see H. Bradford Westerfield, Foreign Policy and Party Politics: Pearl Harbor to Korea (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1958).