This comprehensive analysis sheds light on the character, nature, legacy, and future of the UK-US alliance
After the UK-US alliance's chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, many observers declared the alliance—often dubbed "the special relationship"—dead. Yet this was hardly the first time this partnership was read its last rites. Indeed, one of the alliance's defining characteristics is its resilience in the face of political volatility and geopolitical shifts.
Transatlantic Storms in Anglo-American Relations explains how the world's most globally influential institutional partnership persists despite countless crises. The book's contributions from distinguished scholars explore the roots and evolution of the US-UK alliance; the nuclear, military, and intelligence pillars of cooperation; and underappreciated aspects of economic and defense-industrial interdependence. Drawing on primary research from archives and interviews, the volume documents lesser-known strategic flashpoints and reveals how twentieth-century crises challenged the alliance without breaking its foundations.
Amid the US rebalance to the Indo-Pacific and Donald Trump's return to the White House, James and Kennedy offer an essential guide for understanding the character, legacy, and future of the UK-US relationship.
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"Drawing on meticulous archival research, this timely book illuminates the institutional arrangements and deliberations at the heart of the US-UK strategic relationship that have given it remarkable resilience."Peter Watkins, associate fellow, Chatham House, and former director-general, UK Ministry of Defence
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Nature and Character of Anglo-American Strategic Relations,
Greg Kennedy
Part I: The Roots and Practice of Institutional Cooperation
1. The US-UK Nuclear Relationship in American Politics, Suzanne Doyle
2. Multinational Coalition Warfare and the Anglo-American Experiment in the
Mediterranean, 194243, Carson Teuscher
3. BRUSA: Antecedents, Foundation, and Formative Conduct, 194043, C. J.
Jenner
4. Anglo-American Clandestine Cooperation: The Past, Present, and Future of
the Special Intelligence Relationship(s), Thomas Maguire and David V. Gioe
5. Anglo-American Military Relations Since the End of the Cold War, Wyn Rees
Part II: Economic and Industrial Cooperation
6. The United States, the United Kingdom, and the International Financial
System Since 1945, Michael F. Hopkins
7. Joint Strike Fighter and Transatlantic Defense Procurement, Emma
Salisbury
Part III: Crisis Points
8. The First World War and the Anglo-American Crisis of 1916, Andrew
Gawthorpe
9. Loyalty, Inertia, and a High-Level Tiff: Anglo-American Relations in 1956,
Gill Bennett
10. Jordan and Kuwait: US-UK Relations in the Aftermath of Suez, Louise
Kettle
11. The Secret Weapon: Chevaline's Stealthy Legacy, Reja Younis
12. Divergent Decisions, Shared Vision: US-UK Relations and Strategic Choices
Following the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, Barbara Zanchetta
13. Wagging the Dog? Blair, Clinton, and the "Special Relationship" in the
Kosovo Crisis, Jonathan Esty
Conclusion: 1956 and All That: Is the Anglo-American Alliance Immune to
Political Crises?, William D. James
List of Contributors
Index
William D. James is assistant professor of strategic studies in the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He is the author of British Grand Strategy in the Age of American Hegemony (2024).
Greg Kennedy is professor of strategic foreign policy in the Defence Studies Department at King's College London, where he leads the Economic Conflict & Competition Research Group. He is the author of Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the Far East, 19331939 (2002) and more than ten other edited volumes on defense policy and strategy.
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