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| Public Lecture of Dr. Joshua Muravchik: European Anti-Americanism and American Anti-Europeanism
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 On October 14, 2002, Dr. Joshua Muravchik, expert in
U.S. foreign policy and international relations and resident
scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, delivered a lecture on
the European Anti-Americanism and American Anti-Europeanism in
Center for the Study of Democracy.
In his presentation Dr. Muravchik made a brief historical review of US foreign policy developments since the establishment of the USA: the policy of isolationism defined by the favorable geographical position of North America followed by an active foreign policy in the aftermaths of the Second World War launched to resist to the communist threat.
Dr. Muravchik focused on the tensions between the USA and the EU member-states caused by the different views as regards to their role in the international affairs. In his opinion, the European Defense and Security Policy is driven by the main objective of the EU - to be equal to the USA which became the only superpower in the world after the end of the Cold War. The war in former Yugoslavia was the first test for the international community following the collapse of the communist regime. The EU member-states, however, did not manage to solve the conflict in its eginning and this had terrible consequences for the Western Balkans.
Dr. Muravchik dwelled on a possible war against Iraq and the allies of the USA in the anti-terrorist coalition. He mentioned that there was a renewal of anti-American feelings in Europe after the campaign of the USA in Afghanistan and although these tensions are not a direct threat to the US plans to fight the global terrorism they make things less comfortable for the USA.
The war against terrorism is a war against the governments that support terrorism all over the world and not against the states where terrorists have settled in, Dr. Muravchik added.
Dr. Joshua Muravchik
(biographical data)
Dr. Muravchik is a specialist in U.S. foreign policy and international relations. He has written extensively about democracy, human rights, the role of ideas and ideologies in international politics, America's role in the post Cold war world, the conflicts in Central America, the Middle East, the Persian Gulf, and the Balkans, as well as about the democratization of Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, China, and South Africa and about American Politics. His articles appear frequently in Commentary, the New Republic, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He has contributed to numerous other magazines and newspapers, including Foreign Affairs, the Washington Post, and the New York Times Magazine. His book Exporting Democracy: Fulfilling America's Destiny (1991), has been praised by columnist Charles Krauthammer as "a brilliant analysis; post-cold war thinking starts with this book."
Dr. Muravchik serves as an adjunct scholar at the Washington Institute on Near East Policy and is an adjunct professor at the
Institute of World Politics. He received his Ph.D in international
relations from Georgetown University in 1984 and his B.A. from City
College of New York in 1970.
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