Episode 20 - The Special Relationship?

American History Too!

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)