Is there a ‘Special Relationship’ between the United States
and the United Kingdom? And, if there
is, what actually is ‘special’ about it?
Those are the two questions we seek to answer on this month’s American History Too!. Tune in for a guided tour of the ups and the
downs of the US-UK relationship over the past 200 years – particularly during the post-World War II era – and come to your own conclusion on this fascinating
topic.
New Year, New Format - we also introduce an opening question
to the podcast!
This week: If you could have dinner with three figures in
American History who would they be?
We have our answers, but we are more interested in yours! Let
us know at @ahtoopodcast or on Facebook at
www.facebook.com/americanhistorytoo
We’ll be back next month to discuss tumultuous presidency of
Herbert Hoover with Alastair Duthie.
Cheers,
Mark and Malcolm
Reading List
Aldrich, Richard J., ‘British intelligence and the
Anglo-American “Special relationship” during the Cold War’, Review of International
Studies, 24:3 (Jul.,1998), 331-351
Ashton, Nigel, ‘Harold Macmillan and the “Golden
Days” of Anglo-American Relations Revisited, 1957–63’, Diplomatic History,
29:4 (September 2005), 691-723.
Cooper, James, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald
Reagan: A Very Political Special Relationship (Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2012),
Danchev, Alex, ‘The Cold War “Special
Relationship” Revisited’, Diplomacy and Statecraft, 17:3 (2006), 579-595
Dobson, Alan and Steve Marsh, ‘Anglo-American
Relations: End of a Special Relationship?’, The International History Review,
36:4 (2014), 673-697
Dumbrell, John, A Special Relationship:
Anglo-American Relations from the Cold War to Iraq, 2nd Edition
(Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006)
Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri, In Spies We Trust: The
Story of Western Intelligence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)
Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri, ‘The End of an Exclusive
Special Intelligence Relationship: British-American Intelligence Co-operation
Before, During and After the 1960s’, Intelligence and National Security,
27:5 (2012), 707-721
Khalil, Osamah F., ‘The Crossroads of the World:
U.S. and British Foreign Policy Doctrines and the Construct of the Middle East,
1902–2007’, Diplomatic History, 38:2 (Feb., 2014)
McGarr, Paul M., The Cold War in South Asia:
Britain, the United States, and the Indian Subcontinent, 1945-1965
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013),
Ovendale, Ritchie, Anglo-American Relations in
the Twentieth Century (Basingstoke: MacMillan, 1998)
Parr, Helen, ‘Britain, America, East of Suez and
the EEC: Finding a Role in British Foreign Policy, 1964–67’, Contemporary
British History, 20:3 (2006), 403-421.
Rossbach, Niklas H., Heath, Nixon and the
Rebirth of the Special Relationship: Britain, the US and the EC, 1969-74
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009),
Ruane, Kevin and James Ellison, ‘Managing the
Americans: Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan and the Pursuit of Power-by-Proxy in
the 1950s’, Contemporary British History, 18:3 (Autumn 2004), 147-167
Svendsen, Adam D.M., Intelligence Cooperation
and the War on Terror: Anglo-American Security Relations after 9/11
(Abingdon: Routledge, 2010)
Tate, Simon, A Special Relationship?: British
Foreign Policy in the Era of American Hegemony (Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 2012)
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