On Specialness : Essays in Anglo-American Relations (St Antony's Series)

Danchev, Alex

Palgrave Macmillan（1998/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 224 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780333699973
• DDC分類 327.41073

Full Description

Specialness is semaphor. It needs to be decoded and analyzed. Otherwise it is unintelligible. 'It is special. It just is. And that's that' - Margaret Thatcher, in characteristic mode. Yet scholars have not done much better. Too often in the literature of the special relationship attitude trumps analysis. These essays represent a consolidated attempt to go further. They investigate the who and what and how of this extraordinary relationship. They focus on the personalities and strategies of the wartime and post-war period. They examine the meaning and demeaning of an idea - the idea of a boon companion in a hostile world - and they ask if we can, after all, specify specialness.

Contents

Preface - Acknowledgements - Abbreviations - On Specialness: Anglo-American Apocrypha - Being Friends: the Combined Chiefs of Staff - Biffing: the Second Front - God Knows: Civil-Military Relations - Good Boy: Field-Marshal Sir John Dill - In the Back Room: Defence Co-operation - Amateurs: Sir Oliver Franks - One for All: the North Atlantic Treaty - On Friendship: Anglo-America at the Fin de Siecle - Index