Alan P Dobson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1105181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan P Dobson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan P |
| FAMILY NAME | Dobson |
| SIGNATURE | DOBSON A P |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. Andrews University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The evolving study of Anglo-American relations
Reassessing Hegemony
This is an interesting and generally well written work of historical interpretation based on a wide range of secondary and a smattering of primary sources. Unsurprisingly then, the book does not so much reveal anything original in terms of historical narrative, but claims to provide an interpretation of history to give it new meaning. And that meaning is premised on notions of hegemony and the peaceful transition from British to American hegemony…
Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Cold War
Ronald Reagan’s Strategies and Policies
This analysis interrogates how ideology, pragmatism, personal loyalties, and management style all contributed to policy and strategic decisions made by President Ronald Reagan and his Administration (1981–1989). This approach helps to clarify Reagan’s achievements and shortcomings in what is still a somewhat conflicting historiography of his time as president. When woven together, generally, although not always, the three produced effective strat…
Imperial Crossroads
The focus of Imperial Crossroads is involvement in the Persian Gulf by foreign powers. It covers, in a highly selective way, the period from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century, dealing with
Rethinking Anti-Americanism
This study of the concept of anti-Americanism examines how it has been deployed and developed over time. In that sense there is a strong historical perspective to the work, which leads the author t
Not the Third World War
Whilst the British and Americans expended blood and treasure together in the Kuwaiti desert in 1991, bureaucratic blood from both sides was also visible on carpets in London and Washington. The reason was attempts to replace the access to Heathrow airport of two failing airlines, Pan American World Airways and Trans World Airlines, with American and United Airlines. This succession rights affair was one of the most difficult diplomatic negotiatio…
Anglo-American Relations
Obama's election in 2008 as the United States’ first self-styled Pacific President drew a hearty round of ‘end of the affair’ editorials about Anglo-American relations. His first term was littered with ‘snubgates’, serious irritations in policy areas regarded as being core to the special relationship, and indications of an accelerating US departure from Europe with his premier foreign-policy strategy declared to be a pivot to Asia. His return for…
America, Hitler and the UN
Dan Plesch. America, Hitler and the UN. London: I.B. Taurus, 2011. Pp. xvi. 256.Dan Plesch aims to retrieve a history of the wartime workings of the United Nations in order to provide an account of
Arc of Empire
This study of the United States at war in the Philippines, against Japan in the Second World War, in Korea, and in Vietnam claims that they were all related occurrences connected by the United Stat
American Foreign Policy in Cold War Laos
It has been conventional wisdom for many years that the South-East Asia crisis which most exercised the Kennedy administration in its early years was Laos and not Vietnam, and yet because of what h
Benign Neglect
Challenging US Foreign Policy
Challenging US Foreign Policy: America and the World in the Long Twentieth Century." The International History Review, 36(3), pp. 596–597
The rebellion of Ronald Reagan
James Mann, New York, Viking 2009, xx +396 pp. Mann sets out to challenge some of the myths that persist in surrounding Ronald Reagan and the end of the Cold War, in particular the contradictory cl
Canadian Civil Aviation 1935–45
This article examines Canada's role in post-war planning for international civil aviation and how it was influenced by plans emanating from both London and Washington. Canadian aviation policy was driven by ambitions not easily reconciled: collective-security idealism; commercial advantage; the desire to reconcile British and US policies; and to raise Canada's international profile. These issues are explained and analysed in the lead-up to and in…
From Instrumental to Expressive
The U.S. strategic embargo against the Soviet bloc, adopted in 1947–1948, had been designed to restrict the supply of weapons technology to the Soviet Union and to retard Soviet economic growth. When these objectives failed to materialize by 1957, a lengthy reevaluation of the purpose, benefits, and costs of the embargo ensued. The Kennedy administration eventually concluded that the strategic embargo was an integral part of U.S. Cold War strateg…
Churchill at the Summit
Civil Aviation and European Integration
Negotiating the EU–U.S. Open Aviation Area Agreement 2007 in the Context of Transatlantic Airline Regimes Since 1944
Between 1944 and 2002, the United States sought to create a competitive and commercially driven international civil aviation regime. It tried to peel away politically inspired regulations, which fragmented the marketplace, and deliver efficiencies and consumer benefits. In contrast with the American liberal tradition—albeit with limitations—the industry in Europe was over-regulated and largely based on subsidised state-owned carriers with interna…
The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships, 1965 -1989
Journal Article The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships, 1965 –1989 Get access The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships, 1965 –1989. By Schmitz David F.. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. viii, 263 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn978-0-521-86133-5. Paper, $22.99, isbn978-0-521-67853-7.) Alan P. Dobson Alan P. Dobson University of DundeeDundee, Scotland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal…
The Export-Import Bank and U.S. Foreign Economic Relations
This is a highly detailed account of the operations and development of the Export-Import Bank of Washington established in 1934 and renamed the Export-Import Bank in 1945. Its original purpose was to be the U.S. government agent for trading with the Soviet Union, which the Roosevelt administration had finally recognized the previous year. It was also intended that it should make some amends for the banking failure to provide export financing for …
Churchill's Cold War
Larres fully achieves what he sets out to demonstrate, namely, that “Churchill's Cold War policies need to be taken much more seriously, to be seen as imaginative and constructive proposals to overcome the East-West conflict and prevent its escalation” (p. ix). According to Larres, Churchill persistently tried to sustain Britain as a great power, and that is the key to understanding his diplomacy. To that end, Churchill temporarily aimed at guidi…
The Reagan Administration, Economic Warfare, and Starting to Close Down the Cold War
President Reagan's strategy to accelerate the demise of the Soviet Union consisted of five pillars: economic, political, military, ideological, and moral. The first Reagan administration adopted, designed, and successfully implemented an integrated set of policies, strategies, and tactics specifically directed toward the eventual destruction (without war) of the Soviet Empire and the successful ending of the Cold War with victory for the west. [N…
Allies
The Cold War certainties that had seemed so fixed in the 20th Century were overturned by the war in Iraq. Saddam Hussein's Republican Guards were the battlefield victims of a brutally quick war of shock and awe. No less shocked and awed were some of America's former allies: old Europe, large blocks of the UN, and half the G8 nations suddenly found themselves outside the chain of command and influence. Bush, Blair and their allies were driven by a…
America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe
1University of Dundee America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe: Shepard Stone Between Philanthropy, Academy, and Diplomacy Volker R.Berghahn PrincetonPrinceton U.P. 2001xx + 373£40 Paperback£15.95
The Politics of the Anglo-American Economic Special Relationship, 1940-1987
Anglo-American Relations
Obama's election in 2008 as the United States’ first self-styled Pacific President drew a hearty round of ‘end of the affair’ editorials about Anglo-American relations. His first term was littered with ‘snubgates’, serious irritations in policy areas regarded as being core to the special relationship, and indications of an accelerating US departure from Europe with his premier foreign-policy strategy declared to be a pivot to Asia. His return for…
Labour or Conservative
In the political tradition of the Western liberal democracies, both moral convention and prudence dictate that one state should not interfere by either comment or action in the internal political affairs of another. Respect for the individual, and by extension for an independent nation-state, has much to do with the moral aspect of this, especially when one is dealing with a properly elected democratic government. The values of free government an…
The Other Air Battle
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Benign Neglect
Civil Aviation and European Integration
A Mess of Pottage for Your Economic Birthright?’ The 1941–42 Wheat Negotiations and Anglo-American Economic Diplomacy
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Economic diplomacy at the Atlantic Conference
Of the family of war conferences the Atlantic meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill in August 1941, has been a neglected relation. It has been covered in general histories but only one substantial account of the conference has appeared to date. This state of affairs is regrettable given the intrinsic importance of some of the issues which were raised at Argentia and the fact that T. A. Wilson's account, The First Summit , was written before som…
The evolving study of Anglo-American relations
From Instrumental to Expressive
The U.S. strategic embargo against the Soviet bloc, adopted in 1947–1948, had been designed to restrict the supply of weapons technology to the Soviet Union and to retard Soviet economic growth. When these objectives failed to materialize by 1957, a lengthy reevaluation of the purpose, benefits, and costs of the embargo ensued. The Kennedy administration eventually concluded that the strategic embargo was an integral part of U.S. Cold War strateg…
Churchill at the Summit
Negotiating the EU–U.S. Open Aviation Area Agreement 2007 in the Context of Transatlantic Airline Regimes Since 1944
Between 1944 and 2002, the United States sought to create a competitive and commercially driven international civil aviation regime. It tried to peel away politically inspired regulations, which fragmented the marketplace, and deliver efficiencies and consumer benefits. In contrast with the American liberal tradition—albeit with limitations—the industry in Europe was over-regulated and largely based on subsidised state-owned carriers with interna…
Neutrality and Navicerts
Journal Article Neutrality and Navicerts: Britain, the United States, and Economic Warfare, 1939–1940. By Robert W. Matson. (New York: Garland, 1994. xiv, 195 pp. $54.00, ISBN 0-81531651-8.) Get access Alan P. Dobson Alan P. Dobson University of Wales, Swansea, Wales Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 813–814, https://doi.org/10.2307/20823…
The Kennedy administration and economic warfare against communism
Journal Article The Kennedy administration and economic warfare against communism Get access Alan P. Dobson Alan P. Dobson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 64, Issue 4, autumn 1988, Pages 599–616, https://doi.org/10.2307/2626045 Published: 01 October 1988
Ronald Reagan’s Strategies and Policies
This analysis interrogates how ideology, pragmatism, personal loyalties, and management style all contributed to policy and strategic decisions made by President Ronald Reagan and his Administration (1981–1989). This approach helps to clarify Reagan’s achievements and shortcomings in what is still a somewhat conflicting historiography of his time as president. When woven together, generally, although not always, the three produced effective strat…
Challenging US Foreign Policy
Challenging US Foreign Policy: America and the World in the Long Twentieth Century." The International History Review, 36(3), pp. 596–597
Allies
The Cold War certainties that had seemed so fixed in the 20th Century were overturned by the war in Iraq. Saddam Hussein's Republican Guards were the battlefield victims of a brutally quick war of shock and awe. No less shocked and awed were some of America's former allies: old Europe, large blocks of the UN, and half the G8 nations suddenly found themselves outside the chain of command and influence. Bush, Blair and their allies were driven by a…
The dangers of US interventionism
Both policy articles about US post-Cold War foreign policy and the recent rhetoric of US policymakers appears to be slipping back into the language of the ‘arrogance of power’, against which Senator Fulbright warned America in the 1960s. In what follows, the USA's style of foreign policy; its criteria for intervention; its invasion of Panama; its capabilities; its intervention in Bosnia; and the impact of contending theories about changes in the …
Fighting with Allies
Journal Article Fighting with Allies: America and Britain in Peace and at War. By Sir Robin Renwick New York and Britain, the United States, and the Mediterranean War, 1942–44. By Matthew Jones New York Get access Alan Dobson Alan Dobson University of Wales, Swansea, Great Britain Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages 1469–1470, https://doi.org/1…
Aspects of Anglo‐American aviation diplomacy 1976–93
Economic diplomacy at the Atlantic Conference
Of the family of war conferences the Atlantic meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill in August 1941, has been a neglected relation. It has been covered in general histories but only one substantial account of the conference has appeared to date. This state of affairs is regrettable given the intrinsic importance of some of the issues which were raised at Argentia and the fact that T. A. Wilson's account, The First Summit , was written before som…
The Other Air Battle
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A Mess of Pottage for Your Economic Birthright?’ The 1941–42 Wheat Negotiations and Anglo-American Economic Diplomacy
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The Export White Paper, 10 September, 1941
Britain fought two battles for survival during the Second World War: one was the conventional military struggle, the other was an economic one. The damage suffered by the British economy because of the war was enormous. Many of the destructive elements are well known but there were also less obvious ways in which the country's future economic prospects were damaged. Britain liquidated over $1.5 billion of her overseas assets for the war effort du…
The Politics of the Anglo-American Economic Special Relationship, 1940-1987
The Kennedy administration and economic warfare against communism
Journal Article The Kennedy administration and economic warfare against communism Get access Alan P. Dobson Alan P. Dobson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 64, Issue 4, autumn 1988, Pages 599–616, https://doi.org/10.2307/2626045 Published: 01 October 1988
Economic diplomacy at the Atlantic Conference II
I am flattered that Professor L. S. Pressnell and Sheila V. Hopkins took the time to write a commentary on my ‘Economic Diplomacy at the Atlantic Conference’, which was published in the Review of International Studies in 1984, and am grateful to them for pointing out a number of errors which I made
Reply to the rejoinder
It is a pity that Pressnell and Hopkins do not make a more detailed rejoinder to the large number of points which I made in my original reply to them. They do indicate that the Cabinet did not include the specific phrase cheap labour in Abbey 35, but I also made that clear in my original article by quoting it at length. What the Cabinet did say was that they wanted ‘...to prevent our markets from being undercut by countries with a low standard of…
The years of transition
The term ‘Special Relationship’ can give the false impression that Britain and the US have related to each other in an unchanging way since the forging of close bonds during World War II. If, like the present author, one chooses to use this terminology it is important to identify how the relationship has changed over the years. This article focuses on the period 1961–67, which was an important period of transition. In 1961, Suez notwithstanding, …
Labour or Conservative
In the political tradition of the Western liberal democracies, both moral convention and prudence dictate that one state should not interfere by either comment or action in the internal political affairs of another. Respect for the individual, and by extension for an independent nation-state, has much to do with the moral aspect of this, especially when one is dealing with a properly elected democratic government. The values of free government an…
The Anglo-American Relationship
Journal Article The Anglo-American Relationship: An Annotated Bibliography of Scholarship 1945-1985. Comp. by David A. Lincove and Gary R. Treadway. (Westport: Greenwood, 1988. xvii + 415 pp. $49.95.) Get access Alan P. Dobson Alan P. Dobson University of Wales Great Britain Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 4, March 1990, Pages 1372–1373, https://doi.org/10.2307…
The special relationship and European integration
A Changing of the Guard
The Politics of Aviation
Aspects of Anglo‐American aviation diplomacy 1976–93
Admiral John H. Towers
Journal Article Admiral John H. Towers: The Struggle for Naval Air Supremacy. By Clark G. Reynolds. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1991 and Peaceful Air Warfare: The United States, Britain, and the Politics of International Aviation. By Alan P. Dobson. Oxford: Clarendon, 1991 Get access Jeffery S. Underwood Jeffery S. Underwood Headquarters Air Combat Command, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jo…
Regulation or Competition? Negotiating the Anglo-American Air Service Agreement of 1977
En 1978, Les Etats-Unis proclament une nouvelle politique pour l'industrie aerienne, qui consiste a accepter la competition internationale et a etablir une regime de marche libre
Neutrality and Navicerts
Journal Article Neutrality and Navicerts: Britain, the United States, and Economic Warfare, 1939–1940. By Robert W. Matson. (New York: Garland, 1994. xiv, 195 pp. $54.00, ISBN 0-81531651-8.) Get access Alan P. Dobson Alan P. Dobson University of Wales, Swansea, Wales Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 813–814, https://doi.org/10.2307/20823…
Informally special? The Churchill–Truman talks of January 1952 and the state of Anglo-American relations
When Churchill became Prime Minister and Anthony Eden Foreign Secretary in 1951 they had to try to adjust Britain's world role to match her capabilities, while confronting a wide range of problems. Britain faced a balance-of-payments crisis and troublesome questions from the USA about both dollar aid and trade with Communists. In the Middle East the nationalization of the massive Anglo-Iranian Oil Company operations by the Iranian leader Mossadeq…
Fighting with Allies
Journal Article Fighting with Allies: America and Britain in Peace and at War. By Sir Robin Renwick New York and Britain, the United States, and the Mediterranean War, 1942–44. By Matthew Jones New York Get access Alan Dobson Alan Dobson University of Wales, Swansea, Great Britain Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages 1469–1470, https://doi.org/1…
Anglo-American Relations in the Twentieth Century
Journal Article Anglo-American Relations in the Twentieth Century: Of Friendship, Conflict, and the Rise and Decline of Superpowers. By Alan P. Dobson New York and Anglo-American Approaches to Alliance Security, 1955–60. By G. Wyn Rees New York Get access Terry Anderson Terry Anderson Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue …
The USA, hegemony and airline market access to Britain and Western Europe, 1945–96
Civil aviation relations is the empirical focus of this paper. However, how to explain the complexity of relations between the USA and Europe, even in a selected issue area such as this, has sorely challenged scholars over the years. Micro‐historical studies often fail to appreciate the broader contours and hence the import and meaning of the detail. On the other hand, general theories, or models risk the dangers of contradiction by detail, or of…
US foreign policy since 1945
Malcolm CHALMERS and William Walker, Uncharted Waters
The dangers of US interventionism
Both policy articles about US post-Cold War foreign policy and the recent rhetoric of US policymakers appears to be slipping back into the language of the ‘arrogance of power’, against which Senator Fulbright warned America in the 1960s. In what follows, the USA's style of foreign policy; its criteria for intervention; its invasion of Panama; its capabilities; its intervention in Bosnia; and the impact of contending theories about changes in the …
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