Britain, America, and the Special Relationship since 1941

Part I: Prologue

Chapter 1: The Anglo-American ‘Special Relationship’

　Part II: Britain, America, and the Origins of the Special Relationship

Chapter 2: The Anglo-American Relationship before 1939

The Uneasy Relationship, 1782-1900

Britain, America, and Stability in International Politics, 1900-1914

The Drift to Co-operation in the First World War

The Paris Peace Conference and the American Return

to Isolationism, 1919-

Anglo-American Economic Competition, 1919-1939

Arms Limitation and International Security, 1919-1939

Chapter 3: The Second World War and the

Advent of the ‘Special Relationship’

The Immediate Origins of the Relationship,

September 1939-December 1941

Churchill and Roosevelt: War and Diplomacy,

December 1941-November 1943

Britain, America, and the Advent of a New International Order,

November 1943-May 1945

Part III: Cold War, Limited War, and the ‘Special Relationship’, 1945-2015

Chapter 4: The ‘Special Relationship’ and the Early Cold War,

May 1945-July 1954

The Genesis of the Cold War, May 1945-June 1948

The German Question and the Rise of NATO, June 1948-May 1954

Britain, America, and Decolonisation in East Asia, May 1945-July 1954

Chapter 5: From Cold War to Détente, 1954-1968

British decolonisation and the Road to Suez, 1954-1956 Britain, America, and the Problem of the Middle East,

November 1956-November 1968

European Defense and the German Question, 1954-1968

Chapter 6: From Détente to Renewed Cold War, 1965-1979

Britain and American Involvement in Vietnam, January 1965-April 1973

Britain, America, and European Economic Integration,

January 1969-December 1979

Soviet Russian Expansionism and the Anglo-American

Response, May 1975-December 1979

Chapter 7: Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, and the ‘Special

Relationship’, December 1979-December 1988

Carter, Reagan, and Thatcher: To Euromissile

Deployment in Europe, 1981-1985

The Falklands War and the Strength of

the ‘Special Relationship’, 1982-1983

Thatcher, Reagan, and Mikhail Gorbachev:

The Weakening of Soviet Russia, 1983-1988

Chapter 8: The ‘Special Relationship’ and the

New International Order, 1989-2015

George H.W. Bush, Margaret Thatcher,

and the End of the Cold War, 1989-1990

The ‘Special Relationship’ and the Gulf War, 1990-1992

Britain, America, and the Balkans, 1992-1998

George Bush, Jr, Tony Blair, the War Against Terrorism, and Changing

International Politics, 2001-2007

Barack Obama, Gordon Brown, and David Cameron:

Challenges Old and New after 2007

　Part IV: Epilogue

Chapter 9: The Anglo-American ‘Special Relationship’ and International

Politics since 1941: An Appraisal

Part V: Documents　

Bibliography

Biography

B.J.C. McKercher is Professor of International History at the University of Victoria, Canada. He is the editor of the journal Diplomacy and Statecraft and is general editor of The Praeger Series on Foreign Policy in the Interwar Period (with K. E. Neilson) and The Praeger Series on Diplomacy and Strategic Thought. His recent publications include The Handbook of Diplomacy and Statecraft (2011, edited), War in the Twentieth Century (2003, edited with M. A. Hennessy) and Power and Stability: British Foreign Policy, 1865-1965 (2003, edited with E. Goldstein).

"Brian McKercher’s book is a very useful starting point for students looking for a critical analysis of the Anglo-American ‘special relationship’ since 1945."

Tony McCulloch, University College London, UK