Anglo-American relations and the past present: insights into an (ongoing) mythologisation of a special relationship

Marsh, Stephen

doi:10.1057/s42738-019-00021-1

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“…As a result of highly institutionalized habits of cooperation and a 'common cast of mind' (Marsh 2023) among governmental officials, intelligence officers and military personnel from both countries, common threat perceptions have emerged within the Special Relationship. Among all American allies, the UK has been the one that most closely aligns with their threat perceptions.…”

Section: Common Threats and The Vitality Of The Special Relationshipmentioning

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“…This 'togetherness in adversity' (Marsh 2023) has fortified the Special Relationship, ensuring that it is responsive and resilient amid the ever-changing international security environment. Former Prime Minister John Major contended, 'There is a tendency for Britain and America to see international problems in the same way.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The break-up of the Soviet Union removed much of the raison d'etre for the Special Relationship (Dickie 1994). The strategic priorities of the US were both more extensive and less overlapping with those of the UK than during the Cold War (Marsh 2023). The complexity of post-Cold War conflicts bore out the difficulty of preserving trans-Atlantic cooperation in the absence of a unifying threat (Xu 2017, 188).…”

Section: The Special Relationship In the 1990s: The Absence Of A Comm...mentioning

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“…By intentionally disparaging and undermining the liberal international order, the Trump administration's transactionalist foreign policy damaged the foundations of the relationship with the UK. President Trump deviated from established practices of policy consultation and coordination with the UK and engaged in critiques of senior British government officials (Marsh 2023). His actions, including forcing out the British ambassador to Washington, Sir Kim Darroch, underscored a significant departure from traditional diplomatic conduct.…”

Section: The Special Relationship In 2008-2021: the Absence Of A Unif...mentioning

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Shared adversaries in the Anglo-American Special Relationship: from the Cold War to contemporary threats

Rees,

2024

China Int Strategy Rev.

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The Anglo-American Special Relationship has been at its most vibrant when the two countries have shared a common adversary. The Cold War confrontation with the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies, and then Islamist terrorism during the ‘War on Terror’, gave the relationship strength and purpose. Within these periods of intense cooperation, however, there were issues that caused tensions between the two sides. The Special Relationship languished during the decade after the end of the Cold War, as well as the period between 2008 and 2021. During these periods, the US and the UK lacked a shared external threat, which consequently led to a decline in the vitality of their bilateral cooperation. Now, however, the Special Relationship is beginning to face a new era of threat. Russia, following its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and China, represent a dual challenge that is once again galvanizing the Special Relationship.

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Section: The Special Relationship In the 1990s: The Absence Of A Comm...mentioning

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2024

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“…8 And yet others argue that even if it were a myth, this exerted influence upon the conduct of Anglo-American relations that needs to be taken into account when explaining decisions and behaviour. 9 Questions of purpose and approach complicate further within this scholarship the quest to reconcile different views and/or to resolve upon one as being the most credible. Some works are more concerned with advocacy than explanation, or what has been labelled the practical rather than the scientific and the contemplative attitudes towards the past.…”

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Celebrating the Mayflower: 400 years of Anglo-American relations

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Marsh

2020

J Transatl Stud

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It is a fitting tribute to the strength, vitality, contradictions and controversies of Anglo-American relations that their 400-year span can this year be bookended on one side by the Mayflower pilgrimage and, on the other, BREXIT and the closure of US President Donald Trump's (first?) administration. Trump has periodically been as popular and politically toxic in Britain as was King George III to the Founders of the American Republic. At the same time BREXIT reflects a continuing British reflexive Atlanticism and, reciprocally, unparalleled American fascination with the British Royal family suggests an ongoing popular interest in the 'motherland'. Indeed, the marriage of Prince Harry to biracial American divorcee Meghan Markle constitutes a thoroughly modern twist upon the familial hands across the water imagery invoked often by Winston Churchill through his Anglo-American parentage. One of the most remarkable features within this tale of two nations is how their relationship has transitioned many times over through what in retrospect appears to be a continual bilateral dialogue spanning politics, culture, economics, identity, law, philosophy and so on. In the same way that the 'othering' of Britain was a key component of early American identity construction, so recognition of a shared Anglo-Saxonism was a central plank in the later Great Rapprochement. 1 That British and American elites have so often found their interpretations of world events more alike than with any other country owes much to what Dobson has claimed to be a distinctive Anglo-American political tradition rooted in their interpretation and practice of

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Theorizing network diplomacy on Twitter: a symbolic interactionist approach

Shahin,

Huang

2023

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Anglo-American relations and the past present: insights into an (ongoing) mythologisation of a special relationship

Cited by 4 publications

References 20 publications

Shared adversaries in the Anglo-American Special Relationship: from the Cold War to contemporary threats

Shared adversaries in the Anglo-American Special Relationship: from the Cold War to contemporary threats

Celebrating the Mayflower: 400 years of Anglo-American relations

Theorizing network diplomacy on Twitter: a symbolic interactionist approach

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