Relations after Muammar Gaddafi's 1969 coup were extremely poor, with Gaddafi's government taking a combative anti-Western stance and developing weapons of mass destruction.

Lewis attributes the success of Said's book to its anti-Western stance, its use of, "the ideas, and still more the language of currently fashionable literary, philosophical and political theories."

Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a religious sheik with a popular Al Jazeera television show, often adopts an anti-Western stance.

Although the Welfare Party did better in the December elections than any other political party, its pro-Islamic, anti-Western stance is alarming to many Turks who regard secularism as the bastion of their westward-leaning democracy.

Houphouët-Boigny was considerably more conservative than most African leaders of the post-colonial period, maintaining close ties to the west and rejecting the leftist and anti-western stance of many leaders at the time.

In fact, despite the militant anti-Western stance of their leader, Mr. Hekmatyar's forces received more Government money than any rebel group.

Menon was widely reviled by Western statesmen who loathed his arrogance, outspokenness, and fiercely anti-Western stances.

Recently, China has changed its anti-Western diplomatic stance to a softer, global, more efficient diplomacy with a focus on energy and raw-materials security.

The third major party would be a Russian nationalist party, which would stand on a platform of Russia for Russians and assume a strong anti-Western stance.

When I name some far-flung place with a strong anti-western stance, she pauses for a moment, then says: "Do you think they're going to be all right?