America's 'Special Relationships' : Foreign and Domestic Aspects of the Politics of Alliance

ISBN-13: 9780415483766 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 264 str.

John Dumbrell;Axel Schaefer

Opis

This 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, others more contemporary. All consider the quality of 'specialness' in the context of America's relationship with particular countries such as the Britain and Israel.

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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