Hutton Honors College

Discussion Supper with Peter J. Katzenstein
on Anti-Americanisms in World Politics
and America in a World of Regions

• Tuesday, April 3, 2007
• 5:30-7 p.m.
• Harlos House, 1331 E. Tenth St.
• SIGN-UP REQUIRED

According to a Pew Global Attitudes Project report published in 2006, America's image abroad has continued to slip, even among allies, to the point that only 23 percent in Spain and 37 percent in Germany held a favorable opinion of the United States. The U.S. fared poorly in Turkey (12 percent), Jordan (15 percent), and Pakistan (27 percent) although notably better in Nigeria (62 percent), Japan (63 percent), India (56 percent), and China (47 percent).

What do such views of the United States and its exercise of power and influence in the world mean for international affairs? What role will the United States play in a world of increasingly powerful regions? How does religion fit into the conduct of international relations?

Professor Katzenstein is visiting campus this week as a Branigin Lecturer for the IU Institute for Advanced Study and will give a public lecture on "Anti-Americanisms in World Politics" on Monday, April 2, at 4 p.m. in Woodburn Hall 101.

Peter J. Katzenstein is the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. His research area encompasses the fields of international relations and comparative politics (political economy, security and culture in both Europe and Asia, with specific concentrations on Germany and Japan). His current work focuses on the role of anti-Americanism, religion and popular culture, and regionalism in world politics, as well as changes in German politics. In 1987 Katzenstein was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science. He has held numerous visiting fellowships and serves on the editorial boards and academic advisory boards of several journals and organizations both in the United States and abroad. He is the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of more than 20 books and has written more than 80 papers and book chapters. Among his recent books are: Anti-Americanism in World Politics, coedited with Robert O. Keohane and in preparation for Cornell University Press (2006); Religion in an Expanding Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (2006), coedited with Timothy A. Byrnes; Beyond Japan: East Asian Regionalism (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006), coedited with Takashi Shiraishi; A World of Regions: Asia and Europe in the American Imperium (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2005); and Rethinking Security in East Asia: Identity, Power, and Efficiency (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004). In 2005 Katzenstein was made one of Cornell University's Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellows, in recognition of sustained and distinguished undergraduate teaching.

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