Rebuilding Brand America: What We Must Do to Restore Our Reputation and Safeguard the Future of American Business Abroad

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2. Global Market Insite’s 2004 survey of people in twenty countries found that 35 percent say “U.S. foreign policy is the most important factor in formulating their image of America.”

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7. According to the Federation of American Scientists; see www.fas.org/main/ home.jsp.

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11. Political scientist Samuel Huntington coined the phrase “clash of civilizations” in a seminal Foreign Affairs magazine article, notable not only for its insight but its predictive accuracy. Written in the summer of 1993, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Huntington forecast that the cultural gulf between Western Christianity and Islam would be the fault line of conflict in the future. See Samuel Huntington, “The Clash of Civilizations?” Foreign Affairs (Summer 1993).

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