“Those damned French!” That was President Eisenhower’s reaction back in 1954 when the French National Assembly killed an American-sponsored scheme for a European defense force.1 Almost 50 years later, Senator John McCain, in an off-the-cuff remark during the election primary last year, referred to a minor diplomatic dustup as “one of the many reasons I hate the French.”2 In Washington today such language, at least voiced by officials in public, is extremely rare. But the French, inadvertently to be sure, often seem to provide ample cause for such antipathy. Today, as in the early years of the cold war, the French have taken the lead in bashing the United States.
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In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2001
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 1–16
Clay Clemens
her refugee policy gave her some immunity from attack. Meanwhile, broad antipathy for Donald Trump underscored her global stature, and she continued outpolling any likely spd rival. With support for the Union stabilizing in surveys, in November 2016
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 55–75
“The Fourth Reich Is Here”
An Exploration of Populist Depictions of the European Union as a German Plot to Take Over Europe
Julian Pänke
austerity. Since 2015, antipathy toward the eu has further increased as it has failed to formulate an effective response to the refugee crisis. 59 Furthermore, the share of the Greek population that “approved” of the eu' s leadership fell from 60 percent
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 54–76
A Spectre Haunting Europe
Angela Merkel and the Challenges of Far-Right Populism
Joyce Marie Mushaben
antipathies they developed earlier. Those sentiments would have been rendered dormant during the intervening years by their need to pursue low-paid, undervalued forms of employment after gdr firms disappeared; they might have been further mollified by a
Selective Empathy
Workers, Colonial Subjects, and the Affective Politics of French Romantic Socialism
Naomi J. Andrews
no one had reminded we Christians that it was the day of the Lord.” 76 Nonetheless, antipathy toward Islam was certainly constitutive, for these French socialists, of Algerians’ otherness, given the centrality of Christian imagery and identifications
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 1–25