| World History Connected | Vol. 3 No. 2| Book Review (1569 words) |
 | For Lieven, the Creed is the part of American nationalism that made it possible for the United States to function as a "civilizational" empire that could act in ways that gained the admiration and respect of many people around the world. |
| Lieven claims that evangelical and fundamentalist Christianity is a powerful ideological force in many parts of the United States and that they provide substantial support for a religious nationalism that taps into the civic nationalism of the American Creed but also feels threatened by the secular, modernist, internationalist aspects of the Creed. |
| In essence, Lieven argues that the United States and Israel are synonymous in the eyes of many Arabs and Muslims and that the U.S. inability to engage Israel in a critical manner threatens efforts to create genuine democracy in the region. |
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