The politics of anti-Americanism in France, Greece, and Italy

Despite the benefits of collective action that have come from cooperation between the United States and Western Europe since World War II, the new familiarity has also bred deep strains of contempt that have helped to create a domestic European politics of anti-Americanism. The question has become a serious enough matter in American foreign policy circles that the Central Intelligence Agency classifies European anti-Americanism as a major problem for the next decade and the State Department recently convened a conference of leading scholars to examine the issue. Using the comparative case studies of France, Greece and Italy, the dissertation argues that the entanglement of European domestic politics as it intersected with American foreign policy considerations during the Cold War is a basis of anti-Americanism in Europe. The dissertation draws conclusions about why European anti-Americanism transcended the Cold War and the problems it poses to U.S. foreign policy.