Global Perspectives on the United States Volume 3: Issues and Ideas Shaping International Relations - Hardcover

Global Perspectives on the United States is a collection of compelling essays that provides in-depth analyses of the core characteristics of the United States, crucial historical events, US policies and programs, and cultural phenomena such as religion and pop culture. Sidebars and illustrations illuminate the discussion, bringing in original text from influential writers, historic speeches and treaties, and intriguing firsthand, journalistic accounts of personal experience-underscoring the importance of examining the United States through the eyes of people around the world.

Karen Christensen is an award-winning editor and author who has focused for more than ten years on community and environmental issues. She is CEO of Berkshire Publishing Group. She lived in London for more than ten years, and worked with Valerie Eliot on the T. S. Eliot Letters. Her book Eco Living, now in its third U.K. edition and a children's picture book, Rachel's Roses have been published in France, Germany, Taiwan, and China, and she has taught seminars at the College of Creative Studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara and at the City Institute in London. In addition to serving as senior editor and shepherd of the Encyclopedia of Community, she was project director of the Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (Routledge, 2003), and coeditor of the Encyclopedia of Modern Asia (Scribners, 2002), International Encyclopedia of Women & Sports (Macmillan, 2001) and Encyclopedia of World Sport (ABC-Clio/Oxford, 1999). In Britain, she helped found the Women's Environmental Network, the Ecological Design Association, and she was briefly the U.K. Green Party's speaker on women's issues. Karen has been active in community affairs and local politics, both in her London neighborhood and in the Berkshires. She is currently working on a book about the search for community, A Smaller Circle.