The rift between America and old Europe: The distracted eagle

The Rift Between America and Old Europe: The Distracted Eagle

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-214

  Merkl, Peter H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203007914     Document Type: Book

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2. The German poll appeared in Der Spiegel, February 17, 2003, p. 23. The review of Todd is in "Le Défi du declin?", Le Débat, no. 123, January-February 2003, pp. 62-65.
3. Der Spiegel, January 6, 2003. Beck is well known from his writings on the "risk society." His most recent book is Macht und Gegenmacht im globalen Zeitalter: Neue weltpolitische Okonomie, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2003.
4. Politbarometer, February, 2003. Only 7 percent among Schröder's SPD, and 18 percent among the opposition CDU/CSU wanted to send troops, and 30 percent "matériel and money." 4 See Friedrich Mielke, "Die deutsch-amerikanische Krise," Die politische Meinung, no. 399, February, 2003, pp. 17-22.
5. Christian Hacke, "Beziehungen in schwerster Krise," Die politische Meinung, no. 399, February, 2003, pp. 23-27. Robert Kagan's essay was first printed in Policy Review, June/July 2002.
6. Lothar Rühl, "Der Fall Irak," Die politische Meinung, no. 399, February, 2003, pp. 45-48. Rühl also claimed that the Schröder government and other European critics were inclined to overlook the unreliability of weapons inspections.
7. "Das verflixte Irakjahr," by Kristin Vorpahl, Die politische Meinung, no. 405, August, 2003, pp. 55-56.
8. For German reactions to the trials, see the public opinion polls in the American Zone of Occupation reported by Richard and Anna Merritt, Public Opinion in Occupied Germany:The OMGUS Surveys 1945-1949, Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1970, pp. 33-35.
9. For the German reception of Western concepts of democracy and acceptance of responsibility for wars of aggression, see the public opinion polls reported by Richard and Anna Merritt, Democracy Imposed: US Occupation Policy and the German Public, 1945-1949, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1995, esp. pp. 140-173, 242-243, and 337-339.
10. See also my A Coup Attempt in Washington? A European Mirror on the 1998/1999 Constitutional Crisis, New York: Palgrave, 2001, and the European media and literature cited there.
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12. See also Alton Frye, ed., Toward an International Criminal Court? Washington, D.C.:Brookings, 2000.
13. See especially Mark Juergensmeyer, Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000, pp. 4-15 and chs. 9 and 11.
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63. The point then was to bar the import of prescription drugs from Canada where they often cost as little as half their price in the US. See Lewis, Buying of the President, pp. 103-105 and 434-436.
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67. See his editorial in Sierra, January/February, 2003, p. 6.
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75. On the secret evidence provision, see Cole and Dempsey, Terrorism and the Constitution, pp. 108, 125, 128.
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83. See Paul Krugman, The Great Unravelling: Losing Our Way in the New Century, New York, London: W.W.Norton, 2003, pp. 149-151, 184-185. See also David B.Magleby, Financing the 2000 Election, Washington D.C.: Brookings, 2001, especially the essay by Diana Dwyre and Robin Kolodny on the parties' use of soft money.
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86. See also Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance, New York: Metropolitan Books, 2003, pp. 43, 115-121 and passim.
87. Guardian, November 9, 2000.
88. Le Monde, November 8, 2000.
89. New York Times, November 14, 2000.
90. All quoted in Greenfield, "Oh, Waiter!", p. 227.
91. New York Times, November 9 and 10, 2000.
92. Los Angeles Times, November 18, 2000, and Time, November 27, 2000.
93. National Review, December 4, 2000.
94. Merkl, A Coup Attempt, pp. 310-315.
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97. Greenfield, "Oh, Waiter!", p. 263.
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113. Quoted by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, December 12 and 15 and Die Zeit, December 7, 2000.
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120. Los Angeles Times, July 15, 2001.
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122. Los Angeles Times, December 7, 2000.
123. Quoted by Gregory Palast, "Florida's Disappeared Voters: Disfranchised by the GOP," The Nation, February 5, 2001, p. 20. In Alabama, too large a number of black males have been disfranchised because of a felony record. Rakove, p. 87.
124. The Nation, June 25, 2001. See also the interview with the Commission chair, Berry, in Crisis, July/August, 2001, p. 9.