Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-275) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Collapse of power -- 1940-1945: US policies, British responses -- The Attlee years, 1945-1951 -- Churchill and the Atlantic Alliance -- Eden and Suez -- Macmillan -- The nuclear question -- Wilson and Vietnam -- Heath takes Britain into the EEC -- Margaret Thatcher -- John Major -- Tony Blair -- Britain and Europe -- Cameron and Obama: bonding -- Problems -- Different perspectives -- The growing American imperium -- British options and missed opportunities -- The United States: a turning point? -- How to relate to the big power line-up -- NATO -- Great Britain: an exit strategy.
Summary:
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.
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