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A critical evaluation of Anglo-American counter narcotics strategy in Afghanistan, 2001-2011This book reveals the inside story of the formulation and implementation the United States' and United Kingdom's counter narcotics policies in Afghanistan. Western counter narcotics policies in Afghanistan failed dismally after opium poppy cultivation surged to unprecedented levels. The Anglo-American partnership at the centre of this battleground was divided by competing and opposing views of how to address the opium problem, which troubled the well-established Anglo-American relationship. Through interviews with key policy practitioners on both sides of the Atlantic, this study reveals the complex picture of counter narcotics strategy; highlighting key points of cooperation and contention and detailing the often contradictory and competitive objectives of the overall war effort in Afghanistan.Philip A. Berry is a Lecturer in War Studies Education in the Centre for Defence Studies at King's College London

This book provides readers with an insight to a previously unexplored aspect of Anglo-American economic diplomacy during the Second World War. It explores how relations between the two countries in South America related to the development of the economic landscape of the post-war world - the economic world that we are, to a large extent, still living within.Drawing on extensive secondary reading and archival research in official and private collections, it challenges existing scholarship (including notions about the nature of the economic diplomacy undertaken by the wartime allies) and makes an informed and original contribution to research on Anglo-American relations.It explores a number of topics relevant to the broader process of post-war economic diplomacy:*the Lend-Lease Export White Paper and its effects on British exports to South America*economic warfare policies such as blacklisting and the Axis replacement programme*particular industries which had a strategic value as well as commercial importance, such as telecommunications*enterprises which took on an importance beyond their intrinsic worth, such as the central Brazilian railway

Drawing on rich archival research, this book explores how the elite network of the Pilgrims Society whose members included J. P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie attempted to influence the Anglo-American relationship in the days before it became 'special'.

Thomas K. Robb draws upon a wealth of previously classified documents to reveal that relations between Britain and the United States of America during Carter's presidency were riven with antagonism and disagreement - even the most 'special' aspects of intelligence and nuclear cooperation were not immune to high-level political tension.

Developed through the prism of the U.S. presidency, and drawing on American, British and Irish archival material, this major study examines the attitudes and involvement of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton in the Northern Ireland conflict.

Luca Ratti examines the effect of German reunification and the ending of the Quadripartite Agreement in 1990 on the Anglo-American special relationship. And he shows how UK and U.S. attitudes, reactions and developments interfaced with the views and initiatives of the West German government.

The Falklands War, the US invasion of Grenada, the Anglo-Guatemalan dispute over Belize and the US involvement in Nicaragua "e; in the 1980s, these crises threatened to overwhelm a renewal in US"e;UK relations. US President Ronald Reagan and UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's efforts to normalise relations, during and after these crises, reveal a mutual desire to strengthen Anglo-American ties and safeguard individual foreign policy objectives. At the same time, they cultivated a close political and personal bond that lasted well beyond their terms in office. Sally-Ann Treharne vividly portrays the role of personal diplomacy in overcoming obstacles to AngloAmerican relations emanating from the turbulent Latin American region in the final years of the Cold War. Drawing on recently declassified documents and candid interviews with key protagonists, she highlights the pivotal moments in Reagan and Thatcher's shared history from a new vantage point. Interviewees include: Lord Geoffrey Howe, Lord Michael Heseltine, Lord Cecil Parkinson, Sir John Nott, Sir Bernard Ingham, Lord Charles Powell, Baroness Gloria Hooper, Sir Adrian Beamish, Lord Peter Carrington, Lord Neil Kinnock and Lord Timothy Bell

Luca Ratti examines how German reunification and the end of the Quadripartite Agreement in 1990 impacted the Anglo American special relationship. He considers Anglo American views of Germany as Soviet domination over Eastern Europe began to waver.