Andrei Markovits is currently the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and the Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author and editor of many books, scholarly articles, conference papers, book reviews and newspaper contributions in English and many foreign languages on topics as varied as German and Austrian politics, anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism, social democracy, social movements, the European right and the European left. Markovits has also worked extensively on comparative sports culture in Europe and North America. He has widely written on global soccer with special emphasis on Germany, Austria and the United States. His latest book, UNCOUTH NATION: WHY EUROPE DISLIKES AMERICA, has just been published by Princeton University Press. An expansion of his much-lauded German-language book entitled AMERIKA, DICH HASST SICH’S BESSER. ANTIAMERIKANISMUS UND ANTISEMITISMUS IN EUROPA (in its third edition with Konkret-Literatur Verlag in Hamburg), the new book demonstrates how European antipathies towards the United States and many things American have preceded the presidencies of George W. Bush by decades, if not centuries. Moreover, these antipathies reach way beyond the common confines of politics and thus feature tropes that habitually comprise what one usually labels prejudice.