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Will America’s Image Recover in Europe: Understanding Public Opinion Since 9/11 March 01, 2008 / John K. Glenn
Managing expectations for change may be the foremost task for policymakers in the coming administration. European media coverage of the U.S. election has at times reflected a fascination with various candidates, leading one observer to declare, “Germany’s got a crush on Obama.” This paper grounds these hopes and fears by analyzing the public opinion data of Transatlantic Trends, an annual survey of foreign policy attitudes in the United States and Europe conducted by the German Marshall Fund of the United States and its partners since 2002.



