America Right or Wrong

America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism is a 2012 book by the British author and academic Anatol Lieven. A separate, earlier version was published in 2004. The book's argument draws on Lieven's journalistic experience in Eastern Europe, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Argument In this book, Lieven explains the reasons behind the resurgence of nationalist tendencies in post-9/11 U.S. foreign policy, which he identifies in the combination between two opposing strands of American nationalism: the United States' civic nationalism, which embraces liberty and democracy as part of the American Creed and has been fueling a messianic vision of the nation's role in the world. a defensive nationalism which finds root in a paradoxical feeling of defeat, and Manichean notions seeing everything that goes against American policies as fundamentally Evil.