Search Result

Srl

Item

ID: 088126

Anglo-American economic diplomacy during the second world war a / Mills, Thomas C

Mills, Thomas C	Journal Article
	0 Rating(s) & 0 Review(s)

Publication

2009.

Summary/Abstract

Throughout the Second World War British and American companies competed to gain the contract for the electrification of the central Brazilian railway. The British Foreign Office used this case to establish a broader principle with the U.S. government that the conditions brought about by war would not be used by one country to gain commercial advantage at the expense of the other. While the U.S. government supported this principle in theory, this article argues that they failed to adhere to it in practice. U.S. actions in this case shed new light on the country's economic diplomacy with Britain during the Second World War.

Key Words

Economic Diplomacy ; Anglo - American ; Electrification ; Central Brazilian Railway ; Second World War

In Basket

Export

ID: 100668

Antelope, poseidon or a hybrid: the upgrading of the British strategic nuclear deterrent, 1970-1974 / Robb, Thomas

Robb, Thomas	Journal Article
	0 Rating(s) & 0 Review(s)

Publication

2010.

Summary/Abstract

It is the purpose of this article to illustrate how the British government reached its decision to upgrade the Polaris strategic nuclear deterrent in 1973. Using British and American documentation it is demonstrated that the strategic imperatives for upgrading Polaris were fundamental to the project. Existing accounts of the Polaris Improvement Project, however, have not given the appropriate attention to the wider US-UK political differences in this period. By doing so it is shown how in addition to the wider economic, strategic and political factors, this was of paramount significance in the Heath government opting for the 'Super Antelope' method in upgrading Polaris.

Key Words

Nuclear Weapons ; Anglo - American ; Nixon ; Kissinger ; Heath

Links

'Full Text'

In Basket

Export

ID: 138349

Scholarship and the ship of state: rethinking the Anglo-American strategic decline analogy / Epstein, Katherine C

Epstein, Katherine C	Article
	0 Rating(s) & 0 Review(s)

Summary/Abstract

This article uses the centenary of the First World War as an opportunity to re-examine a major element of the existing literature on the war—the strategic implications of supposed British decline—as well as analogies to the contemporary United States based upon that interpretation of history. It argues that the standard declinist interpretation of British strategy rests to a surprising degree upon the work of the naval historian Arthur Marder, and that Marder's archival research and conceptual framework were weaker than is generally realized. It suggests that more recent work appearing since Marder is stronger and renders the declinist strategic interpretation difficult to maintain. It concludes by considering the implications of this new work for analogies between the United States today and First World War-era Britain, and for the use of history in contemporary policy debates.

Key Words

United States ; First World War ; Anglo - American ; British Strategy ; Anglo - American Strategic Decline Analogy ; Literature on the War ;
Marder ; Declinist Strategic Interpretation ; Contemporary Policy Debates

Links

'Full Text'

In Basket

Export