Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : The Anglo-American relationship / David Watt -- Historical -- Roosevelt, Churchill, and the wartime Anglo-American alliance, 1939-45 : towards a new synthesis / David Reynolds -- Unequal partners : the Truman administration and Great Britain / Bradford Perkins -- Demythologizing the Eisenhower era / D. Cameron Watt -- The Macmillan years and afterwards / Alistair Horne -- America, Britain, and the Soviet threat in historical and present perspective / Richard H. Ullman -- Defence -- Nuclear weapons and the 'special relationship' / Margaret Gowing -- The United States, Britain, and the defence of Europe / Samuel F. Wells, Jr. -- The military relationship / James Eberle -- Defence relationships : American perspectives / Ernest R. May and Gregory F. Treverton -- Economic -- Sterling-dollar diplomacy in current perspective / Richard N. Gardner -- Europe, Britain, and the United States in the world economy / Stephen Marris -- Anglo-American economic relations and the world trading system / Arthur Knight -- Finance, trade, and development : issues in transatlantic co-operation / Richard Portes -- The non-European world -- The end of the British Empire and the assumption of world-wide commitments by the United States / Lord Beloff -- American anti-colonialism and the dissolution of the British Empire / Wm. Roger Louis -- The Middle East / Harold Beeley -- Britain, the United States, and South Asia / Lord Saint Brides -- The China problem in Anglo-American relations / Roderick MacFarquhar -- Africa in Anglo-American relations / James Mayall -- The 'unspecial relationship' in Latin America / William D. Rogers -- America, Europe, and the imperial legacy / Edward Mortimer -- Commonwealth -- The transformation of the Commonwealth and the 'special relationship' / A.P. Thornton -- The 'special relationship' in the Pacific / J.D.B. Miller -- Afterword : The 'special relationship' / Michael Howard.