Table of Contents

Introduction: The Politics of Special Relationships John Dumbrell and Axel R. Schäfer 1. Model Nations: US Allies and Partners in the Modernizing Imagination Nick Cullather 2. Old World, New World: Great Britain and America From the Beginning Kathleen Burk 3. Hating Bush, Supporting Washington: George W. Bush, Anti-Americanism and the US-UK Special Relationship John Dumbrell 4. The US-Canada Relationship: How 'Special' Is America's Oldest Unbroken Alliance? David G. Haglund 5. Australia, the US and the Unassailable Alliance Mark Beeson 6. Yearning and Spurning: New Zealand's Special Relationships with Britain and the United States Dolores E. Janiewski 7. Testing the Limits of a Special Relationship: US Unilateralism and Dutch Multilateralism in the Twenty-first Century Giles Scott-Smith 8. An Aborted Special Relationship: US-Russian Relations in the Post-Cold War World, 1989-2007 Alex Marshall and J. Simon Rofe 9. The Ecstasy and the Agony: The Rise and Fall of US-Iranian Relations Donette Murray 10. America's Israel/ Israel's America Ian J. Bickerton 11. US-Israel Relations: A Special Friendship Lee Marsden 12. The Death of a Peculiar Special Relationship: Myron Taylor and the Religious Roots of America's Cold War Andrew Preston 13. 'What Marx, Lenin, and Stalin needed was…to be born again': Evangelicals and the 'Special Relationship' between Church and State in US Cold War Foreign Policy Axel R. Schäfer