Introduction.(Views from the UK, Mexico, Germany and France)(United States)

Social Research | December 22, 2005| | Copyright

AS THIS CONFERENCE, "THEIR AMERICA," TOOK PLACE IN OCTOBER 2004, that year's presidential election was not much more than two weeks away. A feeling was widespread--not only within the country but around the world--that the United States was about to make a decision of uncommon importance.

The impetus for the conference stemmed from a recognition that the election's outcome would be almost as crucial for the nonvoting 6 billion people outside America's borders as for the roughly 290 million people within them. Though the focus of the discussion was not the election ...

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