Brothers Across the Ocean: British Foreign Policy and the Origins of the Anglo-American ‘Special Relationship’ 1900-1905, by Iestyn AdamsBrothers Across the Ocean: British Foreign Policy and the Origins of the Anglo-American ‘Special Relationship’ 1900-1905, by Iestyn Adams. Library of International Relations series. London, Tauris Academic Studies, 2005. 266 pp. $47.50 US (cloth).

2006 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 634-635
Author(s):  
Greg Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Special Relationship ◽  
British Foreign Policy ◽  
Anglo American

scholarly journals America in "British" History Textbooks

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Srdjan Vucetic
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
History Textbooks ◽  
British History ◽  
Special Relationship ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
British Foreign Policy ◽  
Anglo American

Always far more special in London than in Washington, the so-called Anglo-American (a.k.a. UK-US) special relationship has greatly influenced British foreign policy for at least seven decades, and it continues to influence it under the conditions of ‘Brexit’ and the radical presidency of US President Donald Trump. In this paper, I examine the cultural underpinning of this exceptionally durable foreign policy phenomenon by looking at how 'America’ was constructed in British history textbooks from the late 1940s onwards.

scholarly journals Crusaders in Reverse? The Emergence of Political Islam in the Middle East and the Reactions of British Foreign Policy, 1978–1990

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 196
Author(s):  
Ihab Shabana
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Middle East ◽  
International Relations ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Political Islam ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Political Analysis ◽  
British Foreign Policy

British foreign policy in the Middle East has been well researched. However, there are still aspects of Britain’s approach towards the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) that have yet to be researched. One such aspect is Britain’s encounter with the rise of political Islam in MENA and the way(s) in which this phenomenon was deciphered. Even though political Islam dates back to the late 19th and early 20th century, our study focuses on the period between the turbulent years of the outburst of the Iranian Revolution in 1978–1979 and its widely-felt influence until 1990. Our methodological tools include Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) archival material that addresses the phenomenon of political Islam and its implications for British interests and international relations in general. We choose the concept of political Islam and its adherents that are widely acknowledged as political, comparatively to those of da’wa and Jihadi Islamism. We argue that British officials were widely influenced by the intellectual debates of the period under consideration and that they mainly adopted four analytical schemas which focused firstly on the rise of sectarian politics in MENA, secondly on the gradual accommodation of non-state actors and organizations in political analysis, thirdly on the worrisome prospect of an alliance between Islamist and communist forces, and lastly on the prevalence of the idea of Islamic solidarity and Islamic exceptionalism in exerting international politics. Our findings suggest that, at times, the FCO approaches the issue of political Islam with a reassuring mindset, focusing on its divisions and weaknesses, while at other times it analyzes it with a grave concern over stability and Britain’s critical interests.

scholarly journals Middle powers in the global economy: British influence during the opening phase of the Kennedy Trade Round negotiations, 1962–4

1998 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 515-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
DONNA LEE
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
State Level ◽  
Special Relationship ◽  
Middle Power ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Middle Powers ◽  
Opening Phase

This article reassesses the preparatory negotiations which launched the Kennedy Trade Round (KTR) of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), in search of a role for Britain. My purpose is to make two challenges, one theoretical, the other empirical. Theoretically, this study questions the predominant focus on the structural power of major states that characterizes the study of international relations in general, and of the GATT in particular. This is a case-study of middle power influence that focuses on the negotiating skills and experience of state-level actors at the KTR. Empirically, I question the generally accepted view that the Anglo-American special relationship was merely a British myth and had no significance to US foreign policy interests in the 1960s.

America and the British Foreign Policy-Making Elite, from Joseph Chamberlain to Anthony Eden, 1895–1956

1963 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. C. Watt
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Mass Movements ◽  
Political Society ◽  
British Foreign Policy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Anglo American

This study suggested itself to the author when he noticed that such work as had been done on British attitudes to America fell into two main divisions: (a) studies, usually of American origin, of movements in the mass of British opinion; (b) studies of the radical and politically “nonconformist” elements in British political society. Both of these seemed to the author to be vitiated as contributions to the understanding of the various developments of Anglo-American relations, the former because the social structure of British political power does not weigh mass movements of opinion very highly, the latter because in the 61 years from 1895–1956, radical elements have controlled British foreign policy for a mere eight years and disputed control only for a further six.

New Perspectives on Appeasement: Some Implications for International Relations

1988 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. L. Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Structural Change ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Structural Approach ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
World War ◽  
British Foreign Policy ◽  
Contemporary Writing ◽  
Traditional Image

AbstractHistorical research since the opening of the British archives in the late 1960s has brought about a substantial revision of the image of appeasement that had generally been accepted after World War II. Yet the traditional image has scarcely been questioned in contemporary writing on international relations. This article examines some of the central themes in recent studies relating to appeasement: the “structural” approach, which offers a new overall interpretation; the economic, military, and intelligence “dimensions” of British foreign policy in the 1930s; and the breaking down of traditional stereotypes of the roles of Chamberlain and Churchill. This reappraisal has important implications for the discipline of international relations, its view of the origins of World War II, and theories of international structural change.

I. Great Britain and the Swedish Revolution, 1772–73

1964 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Parliamentary System ◽  
British Foreign Policy ◽  
The Status ◽  
Age Of Liberty ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Revolution

On the morning of 19 August 1772 Gustavus III seized supreme power in Sweden, overthrew the authority of the Estates, and amid the applause of almost all Swedes outside the circle of professional politicians brought the Age of Liberty to an end. On the morrow of the revolution he explicitly abjured sovereignty for himself; he promised his.subjects the constitution of Gustav Adolf; and he did in fact confer on them a liberal and tempered despotism, which may be described as being by Mercier de la Rivière out of The Patriot King. It was a revolution bloodless, popular, and uniquely clement; but it was profoundly disturbing to international relations. Twice in the next nine months it produced crises from which, for a moment, there seemed no issue save a general European war involving all the great powers. It might have been supposed, indeed, that England could stand aside from such a struggle: the countrymen of Wilkes and Junius cared little for Swedish liberty, and had but a dim and confused notion of a parliamentary system in some respects more advanced than their own. But by an odd combination of circumstances, the Constitution of 1720—which Gustavus had overthrown on 19 August—had for some years acquired the status of a major British interest; its maintenance had become one of the linch pins of British foreign policy; and its overthrow was a challenge to a whole system of ideas which had prevailed and grown stronger in the years since the Peace of Paris.

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