59 research outputs found
Clash of Emotions: White House—State Department Relations during the Kennedy Administration
Full text linkThis article examines the rather poor emotional relationship between the White House and the State Department during 1961, the first year of the presidency of John F. Kennedy. The article argues that both sides had expectations of the relationship that turned into disappointments and that both sides felt that their approach and work was superior to the other. During the Berlin Crisis, this clash of emotions gained political significance concerning the case of the American response to a Soviet formal diplomatic note (an aide-mémoire) following the June 1961 Vienna Summit between Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. The White House and the State Department had different priorities and because of the poor emotional relationship they failed to find common ground. The end result was that the State Department won the battle by having its preferred version of the response sent to the Soviets. But the Department lost the war, because the White House used the opportunity to take control of Berlin policy at the expense of the State Department
Make America Relevant Again! Teaching American Studies in Denmark
Full text linkDanes are pro-American and generally fascinated by the United States, but university students are not flocking to American studies programs in Denmark. During the last five years, enrollment numbers have dropped in the country’s only BA and MA programs in American studies at the University of Southern Denmark, and fewer courses in American topics are offered at other Danish universities. This article presents the American studies teaching landscape in Denmark and zooms in on the BA and MA programs in American studies at the University of Southern Denmark in the city of Odense to analyze the problem of enrollment numbers and suggest a remedy consisting of a greater focus on “Global America” in context, greater focus on solving real-life problems in class, and greater teaching cooperation across the Nordic countries
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“America” as Conspiratorial Language: Americanization of Danish Conspiracy Theories in the Twenty-First Century
Full text linkThis article provides analysis of how Danish critics of the state draw on the languge of conspiracy theorists in the United States to bolster their values
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