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A Strained Partnership?: US-UK Relations in the Era of Détente, 1969-77
Thomas Robb
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 229 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPA; JPSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 514.
This is the first monograph-length study that charts the coercive diplomacy of the administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford as practised against their British ally in order to persuade Edward Heath’s government to follow a more amenable course throughout the ‘Year of Europe’ and to convince Harold Wilson’s governments to lessen the severity of proposed defence cuts. Such diplomacy proved effective against Heath but rather less so against Wilson. It is argued that relations between the two sides were often strained, indeed, to the extent that the most ‘special’ elements of the relationship, that of intelligence and nuclear co-operation, ... Read more
This is the first monograph-length study that charts the coercive diplomacy of the administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford as practised against their British ally in order to persuade Edward Heath’s government to follow a more amenable course throughout the ‘Year of Europe’ and to convince Harold Wilson’s governments to lessen the severity of proposed defence cuts. Such diplomacy proved effective against Heath but rather less so against Wilson. It is argued that relations between the two sides were often strained, indeed, to the extent that the most ‘special’ elements of the relationship, that of intelligence and nuclear co-operation, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
513g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719091759
SKU
V9780719091759
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About Thomas Robb
Thomas Robb is Senior Lecturer in History at Oxford Brookes University -- .
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