The theme of this issue of Madarat Gharbiya is “American Nationalism.” What are its roots and how deep they run into the fabric of the American identity? What effects does it have on the United States’ national and foreign policies? And how is it viewed by the thinkers and researchers of the world in which the U.S. solely holds the position of leadership?
 

• The editor-in-chief of “Madarat Gharbiya”, Mr. Mahmoud Haidar, in his editorial titled: “The Self-Charmed U.S.A.” reflects on the theme of this issue.
   

• The publisher of “Madarat Gharbiya”, Dr. Mohammed Nehme, facilitated a symposium in Paris with French thinker Alain Jox and the Italian researcher Salfatore Palidda bringing forward two opposing European views regarding the anthro-sociological structure of the American Nationalism.
   
• A review of “An Anatomy of American Nationalism” by English writer, of Russian descent, Anatol Lieven.
   
• Greek writers D. Ignatios and B. Aristotelia discuss various European assessments of the contemporary American Nationalism phenomenon.
   
• Under the title "Neo-Conservative U.S.A.", French “Le débat” conducted an extensive interview with American affairs expert, professor God Fry Hodgson, in which he presented the complex mechanisms that led to the emergence of Neo-Conservatism in the U.S.A.
   
• Canadian writer David Côté presents the causes and effects that led to the emergence of what he calls "radical nationalism in the White House."
   
  

• Journalists Pierre Baron and Rémi Kauffer from the French magazine, Historia, conducted a dialogue with French historian Patrice Higonnet about the birth of the U.S.A. and the historical conditions that coincided with that event.
   
• Under the title "The Paradoxes of American Nationalism," British writer Minxin Pei highlights, in the Foreign Policy, the contradictions of the United States’ nationalist identity.
   

• French researcher and thinker Nicole Guétin writes for Madarat Gharbiya about the birth of American Nationalism and its sources, reflecting on the ideological and religious basis of nationalism in the U.S.
  
  

• Under the title: The Religious Market in the U.S.A., Christopher G. Ellison and Darren E. Sherkat present an expensive study that highlights the religious map of the U.S.A. The study presents statistics, references and documents for the factors and schools of both Protestantism and Catholicism and their effects on the national identity.
  
  

• An editorial titled “The Americanization of the Internet” by Dr. Ghassan Mourad reflects on why the Internet is economically as well as strategically controlled by the U.S.
   
• A report, by Denis Dumortier, focuses on the Irish-American community on the Internet.
  
• “Made in the Pentagon,” a report about a hackers group involved in the virtual and actual E-War (battles fought electronically on the web to control this medium).
  

In the last section of this issue, “Books”, the reader finds a selection of book reviews (from Europe and North America) that shed more lights on the File's Issue: