A Special Relationship

Author : Douglas Kennedy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439199152

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A Special Relationship by Douglas Kennedy Pdf

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of Five Days and The Blue Hour comes an unforgettable novel about a woman who seemingly has it all, until the man she trusted the most threatens to take it all away. About an hour after I met Tony Hobbs, he saved my life. Thirty-seven-year-old American journalist Sally Goodchild quite literally married her hero. Both foreign correspondents, both on assignment in Cairo, they quickly fell in love and settled into domestic life in London. From the outset, Sally’s relationship with both Tony and his hometown was an uneasy one—as she found both to be far more unfamiliar than imagined. But her adjustment problems are soon overshadowed by a troubled pregnancy. When she goes into premature labor, there are doubts whether her child will survive unscathed. And then, out of nowhere, Sally is hit by an appalling postpartum depression—a descent into a temporary, but very personal hell, which even sees her articulating a homicidal thought against her baby. However, when she does manage to extricate herself from this desperate state, she finds herself in a fresh new nightmare, as she discovers that the man she thought knew her better than anyone—loved her more than anyone—now considers her an unfit mother and wants to bar her from ever seeing her child again.

Author : Michael Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781956763706

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The Real Special Relationship by Michael Smith Pdf

Gripping, deeply researched, and authoritative, the history of one of the closest intelligence and security relationships in the world The Special Relationship between the United States and Britain is touted by politicians when it suits their purpose and, as frequently, dismissed as myth, not least by the media. Yet the truth is that the two countries are bound together more closely than either is to any other ally. In The Real Special Relationship, Michael Smith reveals how it all began, eighty years ago, when a top-secret visit by four American codebreakers to Bletchley Park in February 1941—ten months before the US entered World War II—marked the start of a close collaboration between the intellitence services of the two nations. When that war ended and the Cold War began, both sides recognized that the way they worked together to decode German and Japanese ciphers could be used to counter the Soviet threat. They laid the foundation for the behind-the-scenes intelligence sharing that has continued—despite rivalries among the services and occasional political conflict and public disputes between the two nations—through the collapse of the Soviet Union, 9/11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and to the threats of the present moment. Smith, who served in British military intelligence, brings together a fascinating range of characters, from Winston Churchill and Ian Fleming to John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Edward Snowden. Supported by in-depth interviews and a broad range of personal contacts in the intelligence community, he takes the reader into the workings of MI6, the CIA, the NSA, and all those who strive to keep us safe. Sir John Scarlett, former chief of MI6, has written the introduction, and Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA and the NSA, has provided the foreword.

Author : Daniel Fineman
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0824818180

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A Special Relationship by Daniel Fineman Pdf

The development of the Thai-American alliance from 1947 to 1958 dramatically transformed both countries' involvement in Southeast Asia. Bounded by two important political events in Thailand, an army coup in 1947 and the military's assumption of complete control of government in 1958, the period witnessed both the entrenchment of authoritarian military government in Thailand and a revolution in U.S.-Thai relations. During these years the modern Thai political system emerged, and the United States established its interest and influence in mainland Southeast Asian affairs. The developments of the period made possible American's later, more extensive, involvement in Indochina. A Special Relationship provides the most comprehensive analysis of this critical founding period of the Thai-American alliance. It reveals surprising new information on joint covert operations in Indochina, American support for suppression of government opponents, and CIA involvement in Thai domestic politics.

Author : B. J. C McKercher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351776318

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Britain, America, and the Special Relationship since 1941 by B. J. C McKercher Pdf

Britain, America and the Special Relationship since 1941 examines the Anglo-American strategic and military relationship that developed during the Second World War and continued until recent years. Forged on a common ground of social, cultural, and ideological values as well as political expediency, this partnership formed the basis of the western alliance throughout the Cold War, playing an essential part in bringing stability to the post-1945 international order. Clearly written and chronologically organized, the book begins by discussing the origins of the ‘Special Relationship’ and its progression from uneasy coexistence in the eighteenth century to collaboration at the start of the Second World War. McKercher explores the continued evolution of this partnership during the conflicts that followed, such as the Suez Crisis, the Vietnam War, and the Falklands War. The book concludes by looking at the developments in British and American politics during the past two decades and analysing the changing dynamics of this alliance over the course of its existence. Illustrated with maps and photographs and supplemented by a chronology of events and list of key figures, this is an essential introductory resource for students of the political history and foreign policies of Britain and the United States in the twentieth century.

Author : John Dumbrell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230802070

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A Special Relationship by John Dumbrell Pdf

In the comprehensively revised and updated new edition of this highly-acclaimed text, John Dumbrell assesses how and why the Anglo-American special relationship found a new lease of life under Blair as Britain repeatedly 'chose' the US in its evolving foreign policy orientation rather than Europe.

Author : Kristin Haugevik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351853682

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Special Relationships in World Politics by Kristin Haugevik Pdf

Claims of inter-state ‘specialness’ are commonplace in international politics. But how do some relationships between states come to be seen and categorized as ‘special’ in the first place? And what impact, if any, do recurring public representations of specialness have on states’ political and diplomatic interaction? While much scholarly work exists on alleged instances of special relationships, and on inter-state cooperation and alliances more generally, little systematic and theory informed research has been conducted on how special relationships evolve and unfold in practice. This book offers such a comprehensive study. Theorizing inter-state relations as ongoing social processes, it makes the case for approaching special relationships as constituted and upheld through linguistic representations and bilateral interaction practices. Haugevik explores this claim through an in-depth study of how the bilateral relationship most frequently referred to as ‘special’ – the US-British – has unfolded over the last seventy years. This analysis is complemented with a study of Britain’s relationship with a more junior partner, Norway, during the same period. The book offers an original take on inter-state relations and diplomacy during the Cold War and after, and develops an analytical framework for understanding why some state relationships maintain their status as ‘special’, while others end up as ‘benignly neglected’ ones.

Author : Sally-Ann Treharne
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780748686070

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Reagan and Thatcher's Special Relationship by Sally-Ann Treharne Pdf

Drawing on recently declassified documents and elite interviews with key protagonists that reveal candid recollections, Sally-Ann Treharne highlights the pivotal moments in Reagan and Thatcher's shared history from a new vantage point.

Author : Michael H. Hunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1983-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 023105517X

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The Making of a Special Relationship by Michael H. Hunt Pdf

Author : Jeremy Green
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691197326

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The Political Economy of the Special Relationship by Jeremy Green Pdf

How America's global financial power was created and shaped through its special relationship with Britain The rise of global finance in the latter half of the twentieth century has long been understood as one chapter in a larger story about the postwar growth of the United States. The Political Economy of the Special Relationship challenges this popular narrative. Revealing the Anglo-American origins of financial globalization, Jeremy Green sheds new light on Britain’s hugely significant, but often overlooked, role in remaking international capitalism alongside America. Drawing from new archival research, Green questions the conventional view of international economic history as a series of cyclical transitions among hegemonic powers. Instead, he explores the longstanding interactive role of private and public financial institutions in Britain and the United States—most notably the close links between their financial markets, central banks, and monetary and fiscal policies. He shows that America’s unparalleled post-WWII financial power was facilitated, and in important ways constrained, by British capitalism, as the United States often had to work with and through British politicians, officials, and bankers to achieve its vision of a liberal economic order. Transatlantic integration and competition spurred the rise of the financial sector, an increased reliance on debt, a global easing of regulation, the ascendance of monetarism, and the transition to neoliberalism. From the gold standard to the recent global financial crisis and beyond, The Political Economy of the Special Relationship recasts the history of global finance through the prism of Anglo-American development.

Author : Jonathan Colman
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0719070104

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A 'Special Relationship'? by Jonathan Colman Pdf

This is the first full-length study of the fraught and controversial personal relationship between Prime Minister Harold Wilson and President Lyndon B Johnson, placed in the context of such issues as the Vitnam War, British economic weakness and the UK.

Author : Alan P. Dobson,Steve Marsh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317283720

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Churchill and the Anglo-American Special Relationship by Alan P. Dobson,Steve Marsh Pdf

This book examines Winston Churchill’s role in the creation and development of the Anglo–American special relationship. Drawing together world leading and emergent scholars, this volume offers a critical celebration of Churchill’s contribution to establishing the Anglo–American special relationship. Marking the seventieth anniversary of Churchill’s pronouncement in 1946 of that special relationship in his famous Iron Curtain speech, the book provides new insights into old debates by drawing upon approaches and disciplines that have hitherto been marginalised or neglected. The book foregrounds agency, culture, values, ideas and the construction and representation of special Anglo–American relations, past and present. The volume covers two main themes. Firstly, it identifies key influences upon Churchill as he developed his political career, especially processes and patterns of Anglo–American convergence prior to and during World War Two. Second, it provides insights into how Churchill sought to promote a post-war Anglo–American special relationship, how he discursively constructed it and how he has remained central to that narrative to the present day. From this analysis emerges new understanding of the raw material from which Churchill conjured special UK–US relations and of how his conceptualisation of that special relationship has been shaped and re-shaped in the decades after 1946. This book will be of much interest to students of Anglo–American relations, Cold War Studies, foreign policy, international history and IR in general.

Author : R. Kelley,S. Tuck
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137392701

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The Other Special Relationship by R. Kelley,S. Tuck Pdf

The close diplomatic, economic, and military ties that comprising the "special relationship" between the United States and Great Britain have received plenty of attention from historians over the years. Less frequently noted are the countries' shared experiences of empire, white supremacy, racial inequality, and neoliberalism - and the attendant struggles for civil rights and political reform that have marked their recent history. This state-of-the-field collection traces the contours of this other "special relationship," exploring its implications for our understanding of the development of an internationally interconnected civil rights movement. Here, scholars from a range of research fields contribute essays on a wide variety of themes, from solidarity protests to calypso culture to white supremacy.

Author : John Dumbrell,Axel Schäfer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135278908

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America's 'Special Relationships' by John Dumbrell,Axel Schäfer Pdf

This unique volume seeks to offer an original collection of essays on the theme of America’s ‘special relationships’. The essays vary in their focus; some are primarily historical, some are more contemporary. All consider the quality of ‘specialness’ in the context of America’s relationship with particular countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Holland, Russia, Iran and Israel.

Author : Guy Arnold
Publisher : Hurst & Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1849043280

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America and Britain by Guy Arnold Pdf

Investigates the ties binding the interests of London and Washington, and argues that British policies are too closely bound to those of the US which made Britain the junior partner and accelerated its imperial decline.

Author : Murray Fraser,Joe Kerr
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0419209107

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Architecture and the 'special Relationship' by Murray Fraser,Joe Kerr Pdf

"Bringing the tale right up to the current era of globalization, when British architects are gaining much work in the USA, this book makes for a lively and well-written account. Structured as a series of 7 thematic chapters, it blends the detailed study of key buildings with a wider analysis of socio-economic and cultural trends. Never before has such a synoptic view been taken of this subject."--BOOK JACKET.