美国研究读本（第二辑）
2012-10
外语教学与研究出版社
梅仁毅 编
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《美国研究读本(第2辑高等学校英语专业系列教材)》由梅仁毅主编，本书提供的是美国的基本框架，是一些长久起作用的原则。本书提供的是变化中的美国的一些突出方面，具有动态性质。因为美国研究不仅需要了解一些本质性的东西，也需要了解这些东西在当今的现实中是如何表现的，这就是与时俱进。
本书从美国国内政治、外交政策、经济发展、社会文化四个方面介绍美国进入21世纪以来发生的重大变化。
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
版权页： 插图： 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.
《美国研究读本》第一辑主要是介绍美国涵盖了美国的政治、经济、社会、文化等方面的基本制度。这本美国研究读本第二辑从美国国内政治、外交政策、经济发展、社会与文化四个方面介绍美国进入21世纪以来发生的重大变化。9·11事件、阿富汗战争、伊拉克战争、2008 年开始的世界金融和经济危机、布什主义、巧实力，以及美国国内面临的个人权利与国家安全、大政府与减少政府干预、自由主义与保守主义、红与蓝之间的多种矛盾，还有失业、非法移民等社会问题，所有这些使得今日之美国已非20世纪90年代的美国。了解与把握这些变化，进行理性的、客观的分析。本书材料新，文章可读性强，是深入了解美国社会的极好的材料。 适合对美国感情趣的人士学习阅读，本书书全英版本，不适合初学者。
为了写毕业论文才买的这本书！ 里面内容很充实，不错！！
专业，比较有吸引力。虽然还没仔细看完，但北外编出的资料，质量都比较高。
内容是911以后的美国动态 除了书折了点角别的没什么
一些之前不了解的 看了后收获不少
比 英美概况 有意思，也更系统，比较起来学习，也有助于提高