From Axess, a special issue on Anti-Americanism, including Paul Hollander on the American scapegoat: Anti-Americanism serves the psychological need to blame failure and frustration on a potent, common enemy. But this is not to say that embittered anti-Americans are all wrong; Per Landin on Old-World Resentment: Traditionally it was the right rather than the left that represented anti-Americanism; Avishai Margalit on the West by the Rest: Occidentalism, like Orientalism, is a stereotyped and dehumanised image of a vast array of different peoples; Nathan Shachar on hating America: While the crimes of other nations are ignored or forgiven, the US is demonised for lesser misdeeds—or even ones it has not committed. Francis Fukuyama on a self-defeating hegemony: Four key mistakes made by the Bush administration have made anti-Americanism one of the chief fault lines of global politics.
