General presentation: Anglo-American relations, President/PM "couples" etc (in French) Power Point presentation approx 1.3 Mb and in English

Lectures 1-4 : SpecRel 1 (ppt)

Lectures 5-7 : SpecRel 2 (ppt)

Lecture 8: SpecRel3 (ppt)

The Falklands conflict as a test of the '"special relationship" (pdf)

Dissertation for 22 March 2007: "Lord Palmerston said that Britain had no eternal allies, only her interests were eternal*. Has the Anglo-American "special relationship" been consistent with Palmerston's view of foreign policy?

* speech to the House of Commons, 1 March 1848: “We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal ..."

Anglo-American relations.

Text 1: text Extracts from the Sinews of Peace ("Iron Curtain") speech delivered by Winston Churchill at Fulton Missouri March 5 1946. Note the full text and an audio file can be consulted at History and Politics Out Loud, www.hpol.org

Text 2: text "Three Circles" speech delivered by Winston Churchill at Llandudno

Texts 3: text Paper Prepared in the Department of State: Approach and Objectives of the Churchill Talks. pdf file (1.2 Mb). Text scan. Preparations in London pdf file.

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