The US-UK Special Relationship: A Study in Liberty
ABSTRACT
The 'Special Relationship' is a phrase used to describe the close relations between the United Kingdom and the United States. The purpose of this conference was to understand the causes and circumstances that furthered the special relationship and with it the cause of liberty.
READING LIST
Conference Readings
Blundell, John. Margaret Thatcher: A Portrait of the Iron Lady. New York: Algora Publishing, 2008.
Bryce, Viscount James. The American Commonwealth. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1995.
Burk, Kathleen. Britain, America, and the Sinews of War, 1914-1918. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., 1985.
Coker, Christopher. “Britain and the New World Order: the special relationship in the 1990s.” International Affairs 68, no. 3 (July 1992): 407-421.
Dumbrell, John. “The US-UK ’Special Relationship’ in a World Twice Transformed.” Cambridge Review of International Affairs 17, no. 3 (October, 2004): 437-450.
Kagan, Robert. The World America Made. New York: Vintage Books, 2012.
Kimball, Warren F., “Wheel Within a Wheel: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Special Relationship” In Churchill: A Major New Assessment of His Life in Peace and War, edited by Robert Blake and William Roger Louis, 291-307. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1993.
King George III. “Letter on the loss of America written in the 1780s (precise year unknown).” Historic Royal Speeches and Writings, London, England, 1780.
Meltzer, Allan H. A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 1: 1913-1951. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Perkins, Bradford, “Unequal Partners: The Truman Administration and Great Britain” In The Special Relationship: Anglo-American Relations Since 1945, edited by William Roger Louis and Hedley Bull, 43-64. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Reagan, Ronald. “Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate.” American Rhetoric. www.AmericanRhetoric.com (August 14, 2013).
Reynolds, David, “Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Wartime Anglo-American Alliance, 1939-1945: Towards a New Synthesis” In The Special Relationship: Anglo-American Relations Since 1945, edited by William Roger Louis and Hedley Bull, 17-41. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Roberts, Andrew. A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900. New York City: HarperCollins, 2007.
Steil, Benn. The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013.
Thatcher, Margaret. “Remarks on the Berlin Wall (fall thereof), November 10, 1989.” Margaret Thatcher Foundation. http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/ (January 3, 2013).
Waphott, Nicholas. Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: A Political Marriage. New York: Sentinel, 2007.
Washington, George. George Washington, a Collection. Edited by W. B. Allen. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 1988.
Watt, David, “Introduction: The Anglo-American Relationship” In The Special Relationship: Anglo-American Relations Since 1945, edited by William Roger Louis and Hedley Bull, 1-14. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.