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America and Britain - Was There Ever A Special Relationship? (Hardcover)
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America and Britain - Was There Ever A Special Relationship? (Hardcover)
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Britain's political and military elite has for decades nurtured the
idea that enduring ties bind the interests of London and
Washington, in good times and bad. Irrespective of the end of the
Cold War, the 9/11 attacks and the economic rise of the East, these
links are allegedly impregnable. But how accurate a picture is
this? Are the British engaged in a monumental act of self-delusion?
Guy Arnold investigates the 'American disease' at the heart of
Whitehall, which, he argues, has tied British policies too closely
to those of Washington. The 'special relationship' became a Foreign
Office priority and gave Britain the illusion of power it no longer
enjoyed. As Churchill put it acidly, 'the British and the Americans
were stuck with each other - a junior partner and a senior partner
respectively'. For the Americans it provided a way of keeping
Britain 'on side' but in return Washington accelerated Britain's
imperial decline. The Americans always saw Britain in Europe as a
Trojan Horse to safeguard their interests and as a military outpost
for their global ambitions. They derided or ignored the 'special
relationship', even in their dealings with Thatcher and Blair, and
latterly the Foreign Office has failed to convince President Obama
of its unique importance.
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