Comments on: EU Expansion and the American Media http://blog.blondelibrarian.net/archives/2004/04/eu-expansion-and-the-american-media/ It's all about me and my pretty hair! Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:09:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Tobias Schwarz http://blog.blondelibrarian.net/archives/2004/04/eu-expansion-and-the-american-media/#comment-43 Tobias Schwarz Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 http://blog.blondelibrarian.net/archives/2004/04/eu-expansion-and-the-american-media/#comment-43 The IHT http://www.iht.com/search/ihtsearch.php?id=517829&owner=(IHT)&date=20040503143645 also observed the lack of American interest and explained it with the common US ignorance and self referenialism theme - a not uncommon arguement in US-EU relations- Timothy Garton Ash had a great piece about this in the NY Review of books in February 2003 - http://www.nybooks.com/articles/article-preview?article_id=16059 and he noted that to most non Washingtonians, Europe was primarily far away, old-ish and a region with unclear hunting laws. Garton Ash claimed that even the least educated peasant in the Portuguese hinterland had a better idea about America than most Americans have with respect to Europe. Questionable, in my opinion - but it's a very good essay because it undermines the claim that the neocons are Anti-Europeans. They may claim to be. But they have all been over here for extended periods of time, know their way around and still have a lot of friends here... The IHT

http://www.iht.com/search/ihtsearch.php?id=517829&owner=(IHT)&date=20040503143645

also observed the lack of American interest and explained it with the common US ignorance and self referenialism theme - a not uncommon arguement in US-EU relations- Timothy Garton Ash had a great piece about this in the NY Review of books in February 2003 -

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/article-preview?article_id=16059

and he noted that to most non Washingtonians, Europe was primarily far away, old-ish and a region with unclear hunting laws. Garton Ash claimed that even the least educated peasant in the Portuguese hinterland had a better idea about America than most Americans have with respect to Europe. Questionable, in my opinion - but it’s a very good essay because it undermines the claim that the neocons are Anti-Europeans. They may claim to be. But they have all been over here for extended periods of time, know their way around and still have a lot of friends here…

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