America's 'special relationships' : foreign and domestic aspects of the politics of alliance / edited by John Dumbrell and Axel R. Schäfer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The politics of special relationships / John Dumbrell and Axel R. Schäfer -- Model nations: US allies and partners in the modernizing imagination / Nick Cullather -- Old world, new world: Great Britain and America from the beginning / Kathleen Burk -- Hating Bush, supporting Washington: George W. Bush, anti-Americanism and the US-UK special relationship / John Dumbrell -- The US-Canada relationship: How 'special' is America's oldest unbroken alliance? / David G. Haglund -- Australia, the United States and the unassailable alliance / Mark Beeson -- Yearning and spurning: New Zealand's special relationships with Britain and the United States / Dolores E. Janiewski -- Testing the limits of a special relations: US unilateralism and Dutch multilateralism in the twenty-first century / Giles Scott-Smith -- An aborted special relationship: US-Russia relations in the post-Cold War world: 1989-2007 / Alex Marshall and J. Simon Rofe -- The ecstasy and the agony: The rise and fall of US-Iran relations / Donette Murray -- America's Israel/Israel's America / Ian J. Bickerton -- US-Israel relations: A special friendship / Lee Marsden -- The death of a peculiar special relations: Myron Taylor and religious roots of America's Cold War / Andrew Preston -- 'What Marx, Lenin, and Stalin needed was ... to be born again'" Evangelicals and special relationship between church and state in US Cold War foreign policy.

This volume offers a collection of essays on the theme of America's 'special relationships'. The essays vary in their focus - some are primarily historical, others more contemporary. All consider the quality of 'specialness' in the context of America's relationship with particular countries such as the Britain and Israel.