"Think again: America's image".

AuthorMattox, Henry E.

"THINK AGAIN: AMERICA'S IMAGE"

www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/10/05/think_again_americas_image?page=0,0

By Peter Katzenstein & Jeffrey Legro, APSA Task Force on U.S. Standing in World Affairs

Reviewed by Henry E. Mattox, Contributing Editor

Writing in Foreign Policy, Professors Katzenstein, Cornell University, and Legro, University of Virginia, summarize "U.S. Standing in the World: Causes, Consequences, and the Future," a recent report by twenty prominent academics. That group, which they chaired, conducted a yearlong assessment of the fall--and to some extent recent recovery--of the United States' worldwide prestige since 9/11. They focus not on the specifics of percentage declines and gains, but rather on an overview of these developments. There is no doubt, they hold, that for a number of reasons the United States' world standing bottomed out in 2007 and that a degree of recovery has begun under the Obama Administration.

In this article, Katzenstein and Legro organize their summary of the report under the following headings, whose implications they often challenge:

"'Standing' is too vague a term to measure"

"Opposition to the U. S. is based mainly on that nation's outsized power"

"The U. S. model is losing out to competitors"

"Partnership stops at the water's edge

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