Atlantic Reverberations : French Representations of an American Presidential Election

The 2004 US election provided the French media and its citizens with a springboard for reconceiving 'self' and 'Other'.

Given its prominent opposition to recent US foreign policy, such as the invasion of Iraq; volley of insults and caustic remarks reverberated between France and the US, with French observers linking the Bush administration's policies to particular groups and regions within the US, to a democratic deficit, to a perceived threat of US collapse and to the need for a stronger Europe.

By examining how the French media - newspapers, television, the Internet and scholarly research - represented the election from a critical geopolitical perspective, this book provides the first major in-depth study of views of the US in contemporary foreign media.