Quo vadis America?

Bohdan Szklarski, graduate of the Department of English at Warsaw University, and of the Department of Political Science, Northeastern University, Boston; lecturer at several American and Polish universities; currently teaching at the American Studies Center at Warsaw University and at the Department of Political Science of Collegium Civitas (founder and director of the Institute of Leadership Studies); fellow at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences; numerous works in the area of comparative and American politics; research interests: leadership, political culture, political communication and political anthropology.

Contents: Bohdan Szklarski: Continuity and Change in Conceptualizations of America's Future - Daniel Smihula: The USA and the World in 2030 - Irma Slomczynska: Unilateral versus Multilateral. Strategic Cultures of the United States and the European Union in Contemporary World Order - Agnieszka Krukowska: In search for an American. American National Identity at the Turn of the 21 st Century. Historiography of Americanness - Malgorzata Durska/Ewa Stradomska: Business Problems - Spiritual Solutions; Spiritual Problems - Business Solutions - Pawel Laidler: Security v. Freedom in the United States and European Union: Which Value Prevails in 21 st Century? - Grazyna Zygadlo: Americanos in Amexica - Modern Visions and Re-visions of Latinos/as' Presence in the U.S. - Anna Poplawska: Color Line Redefined: Hispanics in the United States at the Turn of the 21 st Century - David G. LaFrance: How Drugs and Violence May Be Shaping United States-Mexican Relations - Jolanta Szymkowska-Bartyzel: The Polish Face of Anti-Americanism - Monika Rózalska: From unhealthy imperialism to "realistic Wilsonianism" - what role should the U.S. play in the world? - David A. Jones: Lone Eagle, Mighty Eagle - Herbert Gnas: Neoconservatives - Their Genesis and Influence on the Bush Administration - Andrzej Bryk: Is the Nation State Obsolete? The European Union's Post-political Utopia and the United States' Realism - Piotr Tosiek: Democratic Governance in the European Union - Model for the United States? - Pawel Frankowski: Future of the U.S. Strategy towards the New Europe Countries.