CURRENT ISSUE

June 2009

Volume 61, Number 2
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News

(Forthcoming) November 2009: USC/ASA celebrates 60 years of American Quarterly
A national celebration of the AQ sixtieth anniversary including a reception, AQ cover exhibit, and roundtable with AQ and ASA luminaries is planned for this year's American Studies Association annual meeting in Washington, DC on Saturday, November 7 at the Renaissance Hotel.
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Call for Papers

Call for Papers - Alternative Contact: Indigeneity, Globalism, and American Studies

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Responses to Recent AQ Scholarship

Enduring Freedom: Public Diplomacy and US Foreign Policy - A Critique
Kennedy and Lucas have done a fine job in throwing the proverbial cat among the pigeons with their recent article in American Quarterly. In these politically charged times, with the United States seemingly out of kilter with the rest of the world, it is especially pertinent to consider some home truths about ‘American Studies’ and ‘public diplomacy’. Intellectual integrity and autonomy in relation to US foreign policy are back on the agenda for the first time since Vietnam. Spaces of dissent need to be well articulated to escape the gravitational pull of ‘full spectrum dominance’. Exposing the power relations operating behind public diplomacy and undermining the power-less pretensions of American Studies are two counter-punches which Kennedy and Lucas land with some skill. They claim that the critical autonomous zones they aim to open up with this assault, hopefully to be filled rapidly by willing accomplices, should provide the basis for a New Look on the ‘American empire’. The intent is admirable, the means conceivable. Nevertheless, their call to arms tends to smooth over some inconsistencies in the logistical build-up. ...
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