Topic
Special Relationship
About: Special Relationship is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 547 publications have been published within this topic receiving 5183 citations. The topic is also known as: The Special Relationship.
Papers published on a yearly basis
1 / 2
Papers
Book•
1 Jan 2008
TL;DR: In Warring Friends as mentioned in this paper, the authors argue that an external power can apply the brakes to an incipient conflict, and even unheeded advice can aid in clarifying national goals.
Abstract: Allied nations often stop each other from going to war. Some countries even form alliances with the specific intent of restraining another power and thereby preventing war. Furthermore, restraint often becomes an issue in existing alliances as one ally wants to start a war, launch a military intervention, or pursue some other risky military policy while the other ally balks. In Warring Friends, Jeremy Pressman draws on and critiques realist, normative, and institutionalist understandings of how alliance decisions are made. Alliance restraint often has a role to play both in the genesis of alliances and in their continuation. As this book demonstrates, an external power can apply the brakes to an incipient conflict, and even unheeded advice can aid in clarifying national goals. The power differentials between allies in these partnerships are influenced by leadership unity, deception, policy substitutes, and national security priorities. Recent controversy over the complicated relationship between the U.S. and Israeli governments-especially in regard to military and security concerns-is a reminder that the alliance has never been easy or straightforward. Pressman highlights multiple episodes during which the United States attempted to restrain Israel's military policies: Israeli nuclear proliferation during the Kennedy Administration; the 1967 Arab-Israeli War; preventing an Israeli preemptive attack in 1973; a small Israeli operation in Lebanon in 1977; the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982; and Israeli action during the Gulf War of 1991. As Pressman shows, U.S. initiatives were successful only in 1973, 1977, and 1991, and tensions have flared up again recently as a result of Israeli arms sales to China. Pressman also illuminates aspects of the Anglo-American special relationship as revealed in several cases: British nonintervention in Iran in 1951; U.S. nonintervention in Indochina in 1954; U.S. commitments to Taiwan that Britain opposed, 1954-1955; and British intervention and then withdrawal during the Suez War of 1956. These historical examples go far to explain the context within which the Blair administration failed to prevent the U.S. government from pursuing war in Iraq at a time of unprecedented American power. -- Cornell University Press
149 citations
TL;DR: A fortnight after Pearl Harbor, Winston Churchill arrived in the United States and for much of his three-week visit he stayed in the White House itself, engaged in lengthy and informal conversations with the President.
Abstract: A fortnight after Pearl Harbor, Winston Churchill arrived in the United States. For much of his three-week visit he stayed in the White House itself, engaged in lengthy and informal conversations with the President. On one occasion, so the story goes, Roosevelt was wheeled into his guest's room only to discover Churchill emerging from the bath-wet, glowing and completely naked. Disconcerted, FDR made as if to withdraw, but Churchill waved him back. 'The Prime Minister of Great Britain', he announced, 'has nothing to conceal from the President of the United States.'1 Sir Winston denied the anecdote, but, true or not, it captures something of what is meant by the concept of an Anglo-American 'special relationship': an intimate, harmonious bond between the two nations celebrated on state occasions with suitably hyperbolic prose. Leaders as diverse as Churchill and Richard Nixon have used the term. Harold Wilson preferred to talk of a 'close relationship' while Margaret Thatcher has reaffirmed the 'extraordinary alliance'. Others, however, have dissented. Max Beloff, for instance, portrayed the notion of a special relationship as an agreeable British 'myth' to help cushion the shock of national decline, while Dean Acheson denounced it as a dangerous intellectual obstacle to acceptance of Britain's largely European role.2 Forty years on from 1945, what meaning, if any, should be attached to the concept of a postwar Anglo-American special relationship?
101 citations
Book•
15 Dec 2000
TL;DR: The House that Jack and Mac Built - Lyndon Johnson to Jimmy Carter - Reagan to Clinton - Nuclear and Intelligence Cooperation - War: Vietnam, The Falklands and The Gulf - Britain, The United States and European Integration - Ireland - Conclusion
Abstract: Introduction - Transatlantic Attitudes - The House that Jack and Mac Built - Lyndon Johnson to Jimmy Carter - Reagan to Clinton - Nuclear and Intelligence Cooperation - War: Vietnam, The Falklands and The Gulf - Britain, The United States and European Integration - Ireland - Conclusion
97 citations
TL;DR: The unexpected victories of Donald Trump in the United States 2016 Presidential campaign and of the Leave campaign in the British referendum on membership in the European Union have important similarities in terms of campaign strategy, rhetoric and social bases of support as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The unexpected victories of Donald Trump in the United States 2016 Presidential campaign and of the Leave campaign in the British referendum on membership in the European Union have important similarities in terms of campaign strategy, rhetoric and social bases of support. They are exemplars of a wave of right-wing populism that has swept across advanced democracies. The triumph of Brexit also raises questions about the future relationship between the United Kingdom and United States. While it is too early to be certain about either the impact of Brexit or the future direction of the Trump Administration, and despite ties between the Trump Administration and British politicians who campaigned for or subsequently supported Brexit, the United Kingdom could become much less useful as a diplomatic and economic partner to the United States after leaving the European Union.
95 citations
Book•
11 Aug 2006
TL;DR: Dumbrell as mentioned in this paper assesses how and why the Anglo-American special relationship found a new lease of life under Blair as Britain repeatedly 'chose' the US in its evolving foreign policy orientation rather than Europe.
Abstract: In the comprehensively revised and updated new edition of this highly-acclaimed text, John Dumbrell assesses how and why the Anglo-American special relationship found a new lease of life under Blair as Britain repeatedly 'chose' the US in its evolving foreign policy orientation rather than Europe. There was, he argues, no inevitability about this response to the post 9/11 international situation and its longer term rationale and prospects still remain in doubt.
Contents
Introduction
Transatlantic Attitudes
The House that Jack and Mac Built
Lyndon Johnson to Jimmy Carter
Reagan and George H.W. Bush
After the Cold War: Clinton and George W. Bush
Nuclear and Intelligence Cooperation
War: Vietnam, the Falklands and the Gulf
Britain, the United States and European Integration
Ireland
Conclusion.
84 citations
Related Topics (5)
Performance Metrics
| Year | Papers |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2 |
| 2023 | 1 |
| 2022 | 6 |
| 2021 | 7 |
| 2020 | 12 |