Serna, and Peter Trubowitz for their comments and suggestions on the first draft of this introduction. Of course, the responsibility for its content is mine.
1. “Cities Jammed in Worldwide Protest of Iraq War,” CNN, http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/02/15/sprj.irq.protests.main/.
2. Is Hann Tharoor, “Iraq War: Why was the Biggest Protest in World History Ignored,” Time, February 15, 2013, http://world.time.com/2013/02/15/viewpoint-why-was-the-biggest-protest-in-world-history-ignored/.
3. Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, “February 15, or What Binds Europeans Together: A Plea for Common Foreign Policy, Beginning in the core of Europe,” Constellations 10, no. 3 (2003): 291–292.
4. Umberto Eco, Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and the Media Populism (New York: Harcourt, Inc, 2007), 204–206.
5. Regis Debry, “The French Lesson,” New York Times, February 23, 2003, http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/23/opinion/23DEBR.html.
6. Fernando Savater, “Europa, Necesitada y Necesaria,” El País, May 31, 2003, http://elpais.com/diario/2003/05/31/opinion/1054332006_850215.html.
7. “The Frat Boy Ships Out,” The Economist, January 25, 2009, http://www.economist.com/node/12931660f.
8. I finished this introduction on August 31, 2017.
9. See Massimo Gaggi, “Le Promesse di Trump Sulla Sanita Americana,” Corriera della Sera, March 18, 2016, http://www.corriere.it/opinioni/16_marzo_18/usa-promesse-trump-sanita-eb8088ca-ec58-11e5-b4bb-fbc47dd8e9c6.shtml; Laurent Joffrin, “Edito,” Liberation, August 26, 2015, http://www.liberation.fr/planete/2015/08/26/baudruche_1370089; “Trump is Pushing U.S. Politics in an Ugly Direction,” Toronto Star, August 21, 3015, https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2015/08/31/trump-is-pushing-us-politics-in-an-ugly-direction-editorial.html; Enrique Krauze; “Fascista Americano,” Letras Libres, November 22, 2016, http://www.letraslibres.com/mexico/politica/fascista-americano; Markus Feldenkirchen, “American Agitator: Donald Trump is the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” Spiegel Online, February 1, 2016, http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/donald-trump-is-the-most-dangerous-man-in-the-world-a-1075060.html.
10. Here I understand by image a “set of beliefs, ideas, and impressions a person [or a country] hold regarding an object.” Philip Kotler, Marketing Management (New Jersey Prentice Hall, 2003), 566.
11. The analysis here is inspired by Fernand Braudel’s conception of historical time. On Braudel’s conception of longée durée see Fernand Braudel, On History (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1980), 25–54.
12. Michael H. Hunt, The American Ascendency: How the United States Gained & Wielded Global Dominance (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2007).
13. Hubert Vedrine, “Que Reste-t-il de L’hyperpuissance,” http://www.hubertvedrine.net/article-626.html.
14. Prableen Bajpai, “The World’s Top 10 Economies,” http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/022415/worlds-top-10-economies.asp.
15. “World Military Spending: Increases in the USA and Europe, Decreases in Oil Exporting Countries,” https://www.sipri.org/media/press-release/2017/world-military-spending-increases-usa-and-europe.
16. Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth, America Abroad: The United States Global Role in the 21st Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016).
17. G. John Ikenberry, After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order After Major Wars (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001), 4.
18. Matthias Maass, ed., The World Views of the U.S. Presidential Election, 2008 (New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2009), 3.
19. Holger Stark, “America’s Trumper-Tantrum,” Der Spiegel, http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/opinion-why-donald-trump-stands-a-good-chance-of-winning-a-1081434.html.
20. On the idea of the American Dream see David Kamp, “Rethinking the American Dream,” Vanity Fair, http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2009/04/american-dream200904.
21. Maass, The World Views, 260.
22. Michael W. Kraus and Jacinth J.X. Tan, “Americans Overestimate Social Class Mobility,” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 58 (May 2015): 101.
23. Anu Partanen, The Nordic Theory of Everything:
