The Special Relationship

Part I Historical: Roosevelt, Churchill and the wartime Anglo-American Alliance; unequal partners - the Truman administration and Great Britain; demythologizing the Eisenhower era; the MacMillan years and afterwards; America, Britain and the Soviet threat in historical and present perspective. Part 2 Defence: Nuclear weapons and the "Special Relationship"; the United States, Britain and the defence of Europe; the military relationship; defence relationships - American perspectives. Part 3 Economic: Sterling-dollar diplomacy in current perspective; Europe, Britain, and the United States in the world economy; Anglo-American economic relations and the world trading system; finance, trade and development - issues in transatlantic co-operation. Part 4 The non-European world: the end of the British Empire and the assumption of world-wide commitments by the United States; American anti-colonialism and the dissolution of the British Empire: the Middle East; Britain, the United States and South Asia; the China problem in Anglo-American relations; Africa in Anglo-American relations; the "unspecial relationship" in Latin America; America, Europe and the Imperial legacy. Part 5 The Commonwealth:The transformation of the Commonwealth and the "Special Relationship"; the "Special Relationship" in the Pacific; afterword - the "Special Relationship".