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Jimmy Carter and the Anglo-American ´Special Relationship´
Thomas K. Robb
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Reveals the true nature of relations between the US and the UK during the Carter presidency Thomas K. Robb draws upon a wealth of previously classified documents to reveal that relations between Britain and the United States of America during Carter's presidency were riven with antagonism and disagreement. Contrary to existing interpretations, even the most 'special' aspects of intelligence and nuclear cooperation were not immune to high-level political tension. Robb exposes the true competitive nature of the relationship during Carter's presidency, as well as providing an original understanding to how both countries approached the breakdown of superpower detente; the subject ... Read more
Reveals the true nature of relations between the US and the UK during the Carter presidency Thomas K. Robb draws upon a wealth of previously classified documents to reveal that relations between Britain and the United States of America during Carter's presidency were riven with antagonism and disagreement. Contrary to existing interpretations, even the most 'special' aspects of intelligence and nuclear cooperation were not immune to high-level political tension. Robb exposes the true competitive nature of the relationship during Carter's presidency, as well as providing an original understanding to how both countries approached the breakdown of superpower detente; the subject ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474407014
SKU
V9781474407014
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About Thomas K. Robb
Thomas K. Robb is Senior Lecturer in History at Oxford Brookes University. His first book was A Strained Partnership? US-UK Relations in the Era of Detente, 1969-77 (Manchester University Press, 2013). He has had journal articles published in Diplomacy and Statecraft, International History Review and the Journal of Strategic Studies among others.
Reviews for Jimmy Carter and the Anglo-American ´Special Relationship´
The Carter Administration has often been overshadowed by the Reagan-Thatcher years in the story of Anglo-American relations. But Thomas Robb shows in a clever, well-researched and incisively written book that the special relationship was galvanized during this earlier period, as the two countries navigated between competition and cooperation to put the alliance back on a firmer footing after ... Read more