Contents

pp 5-6

Introduction

pp 7-10

I - Contemporary American Society and Politics

pp 11-12

Connections in the Workplace as a Way of Accumulating Social Capital by Polish Immigrants in the USA

pp 13-24

Culture, Socialization, and Policy

pp 25-38

How to Make Stories about the Iraqi War: “Commodified” Memory and Ethical Dilemmas of Democratic Violence

pp 39-46

In Search of Democratic Education. Creating Myth, False Promise or Bright Future?

pp 47-58

Windows, Streams, and Organized Disorder: Presidential Struggle for Control of Political Agenda

pp 59-72

II - Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Transatlantic Encounters

pp 73-74

To Weimar and Back? Poland, the United States, and the Transatlantic Security Space

pp 75-86

A Clash of Expectations: Sorting Out Where East Meets West After The Polish Missile Crisis

pp 87-100

The Polish Missile Crisis: Transatlantic Tensions since 2008 Among Poland, the Ukraine, the United States, and the Russian Federation

pp 101-114

Challenging Americanism: The Public Debate about the “American Way of Life” in Cold-War and Post-Cold-War Greece

pp 115-136

Universal Pictures: Propaganda – Export – Exchange

pp 137-152

III - Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Foreign Policy

pp 153-154

Washington Consensus: Dead or Alive?

pp 155-164

What Drives U.S. Official Development Assistance (And Why It's not Development)?

pp 165-178

Confronting the Global Frontier: The Promotion of American Democracy as a Challenge to the Multipolar World Order

pp 179-186

American “Soft Power” after George W. Bush's Presidency

pp 187-194

Norms and Values in American International Relations Theories

pp 195-208

American Strategy Toward Global Governance. New Leadership or Crisis of Identity?

pp 209-220

IV - Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Impact of American Values

pp 221-222

Lack of Arguments or a Common Sense: Reasons of the U.S. Supreme Court's Preferences to International Community in the Process of Constitutional Interpretation

pp 223-240

American Private Foundations: Global Philanthropy or Global Hegemony

pp 241-250

William Thomas Stead and His 1901 Vision of the Americanized World

pp 251-262

The United State's Influence in the Legal Systems of Eastern Europe: Romania's Right to a Good Administration

pp 263-270

American Concept of Federal Union and Its Worldwide Influence

pp 271-284

V - Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Exceptionalism and Democracy Promotion

pp 285-286

American Exceptionalism: Challenges and Renewals

pp 287-292