A Strained Partnership?: Us-UK Relations in the Era of Détente, 1969-77

by Thomas Robb

This is the first monograph-length study that charts the coercive diplomacy of the administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford as practised against their British ally in order to persuade Edward Heath's government to follow a more amenable course throughout the 'Year of Europe' and to convince Harold Wilson's governments to lessen the severity of proposed defence cuts. Such diplomacy proved effective against Heath but rather less so against...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719091756
• ISBN13: 9780719091759
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"