美国研究读本

Part I American Domestic Politics

Chapter I American Respore to 9/11 Terrorist Attack

1.How 9/11 Should Be Remembered

2.The Citizer

3.Amid the Chaos，Extraordinary Choices

4.Americar Seek Comfort in Patriotism

5.Feeling the Tug of a Wounded Land

6.In Pads，a Flood of Sympathy and Aid

7.In for the Long Haul

8.For America，a Modem Pearl Harbor

9.Congress Backs Bush on Emergency Aid

10.Bush Is Standing Tall，and Congress Likes It

11.9/11 Annive ary：From Empire to Decline

12.The Shadow of9/11 across America

13.From Hyperpower to Declining Power

Chapter II The Politics of Fear：The PATRIOT Act

1.How the USA PATRIOT Act Undermines Our Civil Liberties

2.Democrats and Republicar Sell Out to Pass PATRIOT Act

3.Senate Votes to Expand Spy Power

4.The Edifice of Repression

5.Free Speech，R.I.P.

6.At JFK Airport，Denying Basic Rights Is Just Another Day at the Office

7.Culture of Fear：Poetry Professor Becomes Terror Suspect

8.Inevitably，the Politics of Terror

Chapter III 2004 & 2008 Presidential Electior

1.Facts of United States Presidential Election，2004

2.Fear in the Voting Booth：The 2004 Presidential Election

3.Facts of United States Presidential Election，2008

4.Gallup's Quick Read on the Election

5.Change and the 2008 American Presidential Election

6.Obama's Election Redraws America's Electoral Divide

Chapter IV American Congress and Foreign Policy

1.When Congress Checks Out

2.When Congress Stops War

3.Congress and the Making of US Foreign Policy

Chapter V Post-g/11 American Court

1.In Steps Big and Small，Supreme Court Moved Right

2.Court under Roberts Is Most Corervative in Decades

3.Appeals Courts Pushed to Right by Bush Choices

4.The Federalist War of Ideas

5.Court Immunity？

6.Supreme Court to Bush：You Are Not above the Law

7.Topics at a Glance：The Supreme Court

8.Senate Confirms Kagan as Justice in Partisan Vote

Chapter VI The Israel Lobby

1.Reporter Retires after Words about Israel

2.Helen Thomas and the Rights of Abhorrent Speech

3.The Sad Farewell of Helen Thomas

4.76 Senator Sign on to Israel Letter

5.Biden：Israel Right to Stop Gaza Flotilla from Breaking Blockade

6.Backlash over Book on Policy for Israel

7.The Storm over the Israel Lobby

8.The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy

Part II American Foreign Policy

Chapter VII The Bush Doctrine.

1.Undertanding the Bush Doctrine

2.Three Cheer for the Bush Doctrine

3.Think Again：Bush's Foreign Policy

4.President George W.Bush Deliver Graduation Speech at West Point

Chapter VIII The Iraq War

1.George W.Bush's Remarks at the United Natio General Assembly

2.George W.Bush's Address on the Start of War

3.America Demortrate for，agairt War

4.Casualties，Cost，and Other Corequences

5.US Government Policy：The Current Situation and How It Evolved

6.Barack Obama：Operation Iraqi Freedom Is Over

Chapter IX Obama's Foreign Policy

1.Six Sigr That the American Empire Is Coming to an Early End

2.Smart Power：A Converation with Leaderhip Expert Joseph S.Nye，Jr.

3.Foreign Policy Address at the Council on Foreign Relatior

4.The US National Security Strategy，2010

5.America's Pacific Century

6.Obama Puts His Own Mark on Foreign Policy Issues

7.The Obama Doctrine：Making a Virtue of Necessity

8.America：Once Engaged，Now Ready to Lead

Chapter X Neoco ervatism

1.The Big Question：What Is Neoco ervatism，and How Influential Is It Today？

2.Neocon 101：What Do Neocorervatives Believe？

3.How Neocorervatives Conquered Washington——-and Launched a War

4.Har Morgenthau and the Iraq War：Realism vs.Neocorervatism

5.9/1 l's 10th Annive ary：The Death of Neocorervatism

Part III American Economy

Chapter XI The Financial Crisis

1.The Great Crash，2008：A Geopolitical Setback for the West

2.The Great Recession：America Becomes Thrift Nation

3.How to Get out of the Financial Crisis

4.Trarforming the American Economy through Innovation

Chapter Xll American Energy Policy

1.Addicted to Oil：Strategic Implicatior of American Oil Policy

2.Think Again：Energy Independence

3.Reliable，Affordable，and Environmentally Sound Energy for America's Future

4.Real Prospects for Energy Efficiency in the United States

5.Green Fairy Tales：Obama's Energy Plan

Chapter XIII Environmental Policy

1.The Era of Base Politics

2.Bush Policies Have Been Good to Energy Industry

3.Bush vs.the Laureates：How Science Became a Partisan Issue

4.Bush Aide Softened Greenhouse Gas Links to Global Warming

Part IV American Society and Culture

Chapter XIV Social Mood

l.Center-Left America？

2.Special Report：Ideologically，Where Is the US Moving？

3.Voter Rate Political Parties' Ideologies

4.The Very Separate World of Corervative Republicar

Chapter XV Post-9/11 American Society

1.The United States in 2005：The Impact of the Last Quarter Century

2.The Critical Unraveling of US Society

3.The Widening Gap in America's Two Tiered Society

4.For Elderly in Rural Areas，Times Are Distinctly Harder

5.Did You Know 200，000 Vets Are Sleeping on the Streets？

6.Food Stamps Go to a Record 37.2 Million，USDA Says

7.Living on Nothing but Food Stamps

8.2007 Executive Excess：The Staggering Social Cost of US Business Leaderhip

9.More Americar Say US a Nation of Haves and Have-Nots

Chapter XVI Immigration

1.The Closing of the American Border

2.In Focus：The Immigration Debate

3.Across the US，Growing Rallies for Immigration

4.When I See This，I See Strength

5.Producing Smaller Number，but Laying Claim to Majority

6.May Day：The Fight behind the Protest

7.America's Immigration Quandary

8.Poll Shows Most in the US Want Overhaul of Immigration Laws

9.Arizona Governor Sigr Immigration Bill，Reopening National Debate

10.Debate over Arizona Immigration Law Comes to US Court

11.Governor Voice Grave Concerr on Immigration

12.Arizona Ruling Acts as a Warning to Other States

Chapter XVII American Political Blog

1.An Introduction to Blog

2.Becoming a Force

3.Weblogs：A New Source of News

4.American Political Blogs

5.Organizing without an Organization：The Obama Network Revolution

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