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Author Dumbrell, John

Title America's 'Special Relationships' : Foreign and Domestic Aspects of the Politics of Alliance
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (261 pages)
Series Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy
Routledge studies in US foreign policy.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The politics of special relationships; 1 Model nations: US allies and partners in the modernizing imagination; 2 Old world, new world: Great Britain and America from the beginning; 3 Hating Bush, supporting Washington: George W. Bush, anti-Americanism and the US-UK special relationship; 4 The US-Canada relationship: How 'special' is America's oldest unbroken alliance?; 5 Australia, the United States and the unassailable alliance
6 Yearning and spurning: New Zealand's special relationships with Britain and the United States7 Testing the limits of a special relationship: US unilateralism and Dutch multilateralism in the twenty-first century; 8 An aborted special relationship: US-Russia relations in the post-Cold War world: 1989-2007; 9 The ecstasy and the agony: The rise and fall of US-Iran relations; 10 America's Israel/ Israel's America; 11 US-Israel relations: A special friendship; 12 The death of a peculi
Summary 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
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Subject Alliances.
Alliances
Diplomatic relations
SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93001742
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
Author Schäfer, Axel
ISBN 9780203872703
0203872703