America's 'Special Relationships'

Foreign and Domestic Aspects of the Politics of Alliance
Herausgeber: Dumbrell, John; Schäfer, Axel

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This unique volume seeks to offer an original collection of essays on the theme of America's 'special relationships'. The essays vary in their focus; some are primarily historical, some are more contemporary. All consider the quality of 'specialness' in the context of America's relationship with particular countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Holland, Russia, Iran and Israel.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780415483766
• ISBN-10: 041548376X
• Artikelnr.: 27984681

Autorenporträt

John Dumbrell is Professor of Government at Durham University. He specializes in the study of US foreign policy. He is the author of President Lyndon Johnson and Soviet Communism (2004), A Special Relationship: Anglo-American Relations from the Cold War to Iraq (2006), and Clinton's Foreign Policy: Between the Bushes (2009). Axel R. Schäfer is Senior Lecturer in US History and Director of the David Bruce Centre for American Studies at Keele University. His main research interests are in US intellectual and political history. He is the author of American Progressives and German Social Reform, 1875-1920 (2000) and The Cold War State, Religion, and the Resurgence of Evangelicalism, 1942-1990 (forthcoming).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Politics of Special Relationships John Dumbrell and Axel
R. Schäfer 1. Model Nations: US Allies and Partners in the Modernizing
Imagination Nick Cullather 2. Old World, New World: Great Britain and
America From the Beginning Kathleen Burk 3. Hating Bush, Supporting
Washington: George W. Bush, Anti-Americanism and the US-UK Special
Relationship John Dumbrell 4. The US-Canada Relationship: How 'Special' Is
America's Oldest Unbroken Alliance? David G. Haglund 5. Australia, the US
and the Unassailable Alliance Mark Beeson 6. Yearning and Spurning: New
Zealand's Special Relationships with Britain and the United States Dolores
E. Janiewski 7. Testing the Limits of a Special Relationship: US
Unilateralism and Dutch Multilateralism in the Twenty-first Century Giles
Scott-Smith 8. An Aborted Special Relationship: US-Russian Relations in the
Post-Cold War World, 1989-2007 Alex Marshall and J. Simon Rofe 9. The
Ecstasy and the Agony: The Rise and Fall of US-Iranian Relations Donette
Murray 10. America's Israel/ Israel's America Ian J. Bickerton 11.
US-Israel Relations: A Special Friendship Lee Marsden 12. The Death of a
Peculiar Special Relationship: Myron Taylor and the Religious Roots of
America's Cold War Andrew Preston 13. 'What Marx, Lenin, and Stalin needed
was...to be born again': Evangelicals and the 'Special Relationship'
between Church and State in US Cold War Foreign Policy Axel R. Schäfer