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Middle East Review of International Affairs
Islamists and Anti-Americanism
by Reuven Paz
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Abstract
The leading element of anti-Americanism in contemporary world politics is the radical Islamist one, which, since the 1990s, has viewed the United States as its strongest and principal enemy. This perception, especially after the American occupation of Iraq, is often accompanied by a demonization of the United States in an apocalyptic sense within a concept of a war that heralds the end of the world.
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Note *: Reuven Paz is a Senior Fellow at the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and director of its Project for the Research of Islamist Movements (PRISM). He is also the author of "Middle East Islamism in the European Arena" which appeared in the September 2002 issue of MERIA. Back