The image of the US has gone down in the past couple of years, what with drones killing ‘bout near anyone they want and all the information on the illegal activity of the US that Snowden clued the world in on but even so, it is much more positive than it ever was under Bush. Here are a couple of articles about it, one from Global Issues and the latest Pew Data which is from April 2013..
Finally, another article from Pew, this one stating that the positive opinion slipped because of things he didn’t do like, act multilaterally, be more even handed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, take the lead and make progress in climate change policy. It also notes that “Russian President Vladimir Putin is rated negatively in most of the countries surveyed, and Russia’s overall image has declined since last year in Western Europe and the U.S.”
Finally Here is a chart showing the world opinion of the US since 2002. As far as I can tell of all the countries asked, and even given opinion has slipped, there are only eight countries, less than 13% of those asked, that have a worse opinion of us now than in 2007, Uganda, Russia, Pakistan, Lebanon, Kenya, Jordan, Ghana and Egypt.
ok, I lied on the finally thing Here is an article from the Washington Monthly (2011) showing how in 2007/2008 of the seven countries on the survey (Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Russia and China) only Russia ranked below us in respect but by 2010 we were once again on top.