The ‘special’ Anglo-American special relationship ‘a fatter, larger underwater cable’

Journal of Transatlantic Studies

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-5

  Kimball, Warren F ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85014728480     PISSN: 14794012     EISSN: 17541018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14794010508656782     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. For starters, see my ‘Fighting With Allies’:The Hand Care and Feeding of the Anglo-American Special Relationship — from WWII to the Falklands War Harmon Memorial Lecture No. 41 U.S. Air Force Academy Colorado 1998 published in revised form in Architects of the American Century:Individuals and Institutions in Twentieth-Century U.S. Foreign Policy making, David Schmitz andT. Christopher Jespersen, eds. (Chicago:Imprint, 2000), 29–45; in Future Wars:Coalition Operations in Global Strategy, Dennis E. Showalter, ed. (Chicago:Imprint, 2000), 89–105; and as “The Anglo-American Relationship:Still Special after All these Years,” in The “Special Relationship”:La “relation spéciale” entre le Royaume-Uni et les États-Unis, eds. Antoine Capet and Aïssatou Sy-Wonyu (Rouen, France:C.É.L.C.L.A /University of Rouen, 2003), 207–24.
2. Interview with Sir Coles John, (London, England) 1998 May 6
3. Interview with Acland Antony, (Eton College, Slough, England) 1998 May 20
4. Danchev, Alex. 1998. On Specialness:Essays in Anglo-American Relations, ix–ix. Houndmills:Macmillan.
5. See, for example Kurth James, “America's Identity and American Foreign Policy,” and the other articles gathered under the rubric “British America in the World” Orbis:A Journal of World Affairs 2005 winter 49 1 1 in
6. Robert, James Rhodes, ed. 1974. Winston S. Churchill:His Complete Speeches, 1897–1963, Vol. VII, 7289–7289. New York & London:Chelsea House.
7. Robert, James Rhodes, ed. 1974. Winston S. Churchill:His Complete Speeches, 1897–1963, Vol. VII, 7244–7244. New York & London:Chelsea House.
8. Charmley, John. 1995. Churchill's Grand Alliance:The Anglo-American Special Relationship 1940–57, 5–7. London:Hoder & Stoughton. 46
9. I leave the precise definition of “biffing” to Alex Danchev, for whom it is a favorite word; see his On Specialness chapter 3