Locating the Transatlantic in Twentieth-century Politics, Diplomacy and Culture

Written in tribute to the work of Professor Alan Dobson, this collection of essays brings diplomacy and the Anglo-American relationship together, considering politics and foreign policy in tandem with cultural interactions. Uniquely placed to define exactly what transatlanticism is, and to explore the ways in which this idea has evolved in the last 150 years, this book asks to what extent can it be argued that there was a transatlantic world, how can it be defined and what was unique about it? With contributions from leading scholars it offers an overview of the field as well as a comparative exploration of Anglo-American relations. From emotion in foreign policy decision making, to the RAF in the Vietnam War, as well as leader personalities and transatlantic reactions to women's rights in China, Locating the Transatlantic in Twentieth-century Politics, Diplomacy and Culture explores this 'special relationship' at many levels and from many angles. It further asks how this relationship has evolved over the years, and considers how it might survive in a globalized, post-industrial world. Cover Contents List of Figures Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Gaynor Johnson Chapter 1 The Political Scientist as Historian: Reflections on the link between culture, ‘status anxiety’ and the American decision for war, April 1917 David G. Haglund Chapter 2 Sir Ronald Lindsay, The United States and the outbreak of the Second World War Gaynor Johnson Chapter 3 Quixotic Calling: Robert and Marion Merriman in the Spanish Civil War David Mayers Chapter 4 John Bassett Moore and The Modest Virtues of International Law David Clinton Chapter 5 Roca-Runciman Revisited: Anglo-American relations and Argentina during the ‘Infamous Decade’, 1933–43 Tony McCulloch Chapter 6 The Other Royal Dimension to the transatlantic relationship: FDR and the Dutch and Norwegian royal families during the Second World War David B. Woolner Chapter 7 Re-Establishing the Honour of France in the air: Francophone aviator literary figures during the Second World War Andrew Williams Chapter 8 The British Royal Air Force: Operations over Laos against the Ho Chi Minh Trail, 1962 Priscilla Roberts Chapter 9 Britain, the US Bicentennial and the State Visit of Queen Elizabeth II to the United States, 1976 Jonathan Colman Chapter 10 Reagan’s Incoherence: Nicaragua in the Reagan Doctrine and the end of the Cold War David Ryan Chapter 11 North Georgia, the American South, and transatlantic culture and history T. Christopher Jespersen Chapter 12 Personalities and Power within the Special Relationship at the Cold War’s end Jeffrey A. Engel Chapter 13 The Anglo-American Special Relationship: Past, Present, Future Steve Marsh Chapter 14 UK–US relations: Can subnational diplomacy save the ‘special relationship’? Alison R. Holmes Index Written in tribute to the work of Professor Alan Dobson, this collection of essays brings diplomacy and the Anglo-American relationship together, considering politics and foreign policy in tandem with cultural interactions. Uniquely placed to define exactly what transatlanticism is, and to explore the ways in which this idea has evolved in the last 150 years, this book asks to what extent can it be argued that there was a transatlantic world, how can it be defined and what was unique about it? With contributions from leading scholars it offers an overview of the field as well as a comparative exploration of Anglo-American relations. From emotion in foreign policy decision making, to the RAF in the Vietnam War, as well as leader personalities and transatlantic reactions to women's rights in China, Transatlanticism and Transnationalism since the First World War explores this 'special relationship' at many levels and from many angles. It further asks how this relationship has evolved over the years, and considers how it might survive in a globalized, post-industrial world.