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1 online resource (261 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy |
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Routledge studies in US foreign policy.
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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 |
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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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Print version record |
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Alliances.
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Alliances
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Diplomatic relations
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SUBJECT |
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93001742
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United States
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Schäfer, Axel
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ISBN |
9780203872703 |
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0203872703 |
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