美國研究讀本（第二輯）

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《美國研究讀本(第2輯高等學(xué)校英語專業(yè)系列教材)》由梅仁毅主編，本書提供的是美國的基本框架，是一些長久起作用的原則。本書提供的是變化中的美國的一些突出方面，具有動(dòng)態(tài)性質(zhì)。因?yàn)槊绹芯坎粌H需要了解一些本質(zhì)性的東西，也需要了解這些東西在當(dāng)今的現(xiàn)實(shí)中是如何表現(xiàn)的，這就是與時(shí)俱進(jìn)。
本書從美國國內(nèi)政治、外交政策、經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展、社會(huì)文化四個(gè)方面介紹美國進(jìn)入21世紀(jì)以來發(fā)生的重大變化。

書籍目錄

Part I American Domestic Politics
Chapter I American Respoe to 9/11 Terrorist Attack
    1. How 9/11 Should Be Remembered
    2. The Citize
    3. Amid the Chaos， Extraordinary Choices
    4. America 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 Anniveary: 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 Republica Sell Out to Pass PATRIOT Act
   3. Senate Votes to Expand Spy Powe
   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 Electio
    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 Wa
    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 Coervative 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 Senato 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. Undetanding the Bush Doctrine
   2. Three Chee for the Bush Doctrine
   3. Think Again: Bush's Foreign Policy
   4. President George W. Bush Delive 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 Demotrate for， agait War
   4. Casualties， Cost， and Other Coequences
   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 Sig That the American Empire Is Coming to an Early End
   2. Smart Power: A Conveation with Leadehip Expert Joseph S. Nye，
Jr.
   3. Foreign Policy Address at the Council on Foreign Relatio
   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 Neocoervatism
   1. The Big Question: What Is Neocoervatism， and How Influential
Is It Today？
   2. Neocon 101: What Do Neocoervatives Believe？
   3. How Neocoervatives Conquered Washington---and Launched a War
   4. Ha Morgenthau and the Iraq War: Realism vs. Neocoervatism
   5.9/1 l's 10th Anniveary: The Death of Neocoervatism
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. Traforming the American Economy through Innovation
Chapter Xll American Energy Policy
   1. Addicted to Oil: Strategic Implicatio 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. Vote Rate Political Parties' Ideologies
    4. The Very Separate World of Coervative Republica
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 Leadehip
    9. More America 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 Numbe， 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 Sig Immigration Bill， Reopening National
Debate
    10. Debate over Arizona Immigration Law Comes to US Court
   11. Governo Voice Grave Concer 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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版權(quán)頁：   插圖：   A brief glance further back in history identifies numerous other examples of serious Congressional quarrels with the Executive over foreign policy.Woodrow Wilson's failed effort to persuade the Senate to accept his League of Nations after the First World War is well known.In a less renowned case,William McKinley managed to annex Hawaii in 1898 only by transforming his treaty,which did not have the support of two-thirds of the Senate,into a joint resolution of Congress,which only required a majority vote.In August 1941,Franklin Roosevelt barely managed to persuade Congress to extend the draft by a vote of 203 to 202. A more balanced reading of history than that offered by the new myth suggests that Congressional deference to the Executive's foreign policy was the exception.Indeed,the period of special comity between the Executive and Congress on foreign policy was relatively brief,extending from 1941 to the mid-1960s.The unusual reserve of Congress during those years seemed to reflect in part the sense of members that Congress' actions on trade and security in the 1930s had led to disastrous consequences:they doubted themselves and the ability of Congress to make sound foreign policies.Even with this deference,the biographies of Secretaries of State George Marshall,Dean Acheson and John Foster Dulles are replete with incidents in which the Executive had to make special efforts,compromises and public campaigns to win Congressional support.And as the Congressional rejection of the new International Trade Organization in the late 1940s revealed,even the grand architects of America's post-Second World War strategy could not count on securing Congressional approval of all their initiatives. After the Executive demonstrated that it,too,could make dreadful mistakes in foreign policy,Congress moved aggressively to reclaim its place.As Richard Haass observed in 1979,Congress had not only revived its foreign-policy involvement during the previous decade but it had also changed the nature of its role.Before the Second World War-except for a few topics such as spending,tariffs and treaties-Congress usually contented itself with establishing general political parameters and expectations for America's international policies.Starting in the 1970s,Congress' interventions became more detailed and substantive.

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