Global Perspectives on the United States: Issues and Ideas Shaping International Relations. Volume III

“Yanks go home” seemed to be written on innumerable walls (and ground surfaces so that overflying pilots could read the message) during my schooldays at the height of the Cold War. Hostility to US troops in Europe was driven by a range of motives, from the idealistic (nuclear disarmament) to the specifically jealous (“overpaid, over‐sexed and over here”). This is an emotive subject at any time, certainly not only now, although the after‐effects of the invasion of Iraq are causing much hostile comment, in fairness directed in the UK as much at our own government as at the USA. That...