عنوان

'The Quality of the Ordinary': Anglo-American Diplomacy and the Third World 1975-1980

Number

TL48511

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

'The Quality of the Ordinary': Anglo-American Diplomacy and the Third World 1975-1980

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Andrew J. Whitford

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Pedersen, Susan

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Columbia University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

339

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-13911-1

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

History

Body granting the degree

Columbia University

Text preceding or following the note

2015

Text of Note

The recovery of the Anglo-American relationship in the late 1970s took place in the Third World. The "Special Relationship" between the United States and Britain reached its post-World War II nadir in the decade between 1964 and 1974. Simultaneous to this decline in the relationship was the growing power and influence of the Third World in international institutions. By the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, both the United States and Britain were suffering political and economic turmoil brought about by increased oil prices, labor unrest, and inflation. The two countries worked together to navigate a broad array of problems to include the Third World's increasing hostility to Israel and calls for a New International Economic Order in the United Nations, a growing refugee crisis in southeast Asia, the spread of the Cold War to southern Africa, and questions about decline and disorder at home. In the United States, neoconservatives began to assert a greater role in international affairs by questioning both the future of British socialism and the wisdom of appeasing the Third World. Within these constraints, British and American statesmen acted to end white rule in Rhodesia to contain communist expansion, care for refugees while upholding international law within real fiscal constraints, and free American hostages held in Iran. Through both their actions and their improved mutual understanding, intellectually and politically diverse statesmen such as Henry Kissinger, Anthony Crosland, Andrew Young, and Peter Carrington established a balance in the Special Relationship that allowed the United States and Britain to cooperate in the Third World while respecting the other's independence.

History

Subject Term

Social sciences;1970s;Anglo-american;Diplomacy;Special relationship;Third world

Jahroni, Jajang

Pedersen, Susan

Subdivision

History

Columbia University

Call Number

1733694974; 3728464

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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Y