Alex Spelling
Biographic Data
| ID | 5786454 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Spelling |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Spelling |
| SIGNATURE | SPELLING A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Who Said Chemical Warfare
This article explores the Nixon administration's resubmission to the U.S. Senate of the Geneva Protocol: the 1925 treaty that prohibited use of chemical and biological weapons in warfare. Extensive use of Riot Control Agents (RCAs) and plant herbicides by U.S. forces in the Vietnam War had attracted much international criticism alleging that such substances were banned by the Protocol and contravened international law. The ratification initiative…
The Wilson-Johnson Correspondence, 1964–69
Simon Smith has conducted diligent research in the UK National Archives, Harold Wilson's private papers, and the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library among other sources, emerging with a collection of bilateral correspondence published in one place for the first time (some of the material is also available in the relevant 1964–1968 Foreign Relations of the United States series). Smith builds on research done on this era by the likes of Jonathan Colman a…
Driven to Tears”
This analysis considers a controversy over whether the 1925 Geneva Protocol, the treaty prohibiting the use of chemical and biological weapons in warfare, covered CS “tear gas.” Widespread deployment of tear gases by American forces in Vietnam after 1964 attracted much international criticism as many believed the Protocol banned such agents and pressure gradually built on the British government to clarify its interpretative position. Its tabling …
Preventing ‘A Virological Hiroshima’
This article examines representations of biological weapons during a crucial period in the recent history of this form of warfare. The study draws on a corpus of newspaper articles from the US New York Times and the UK Times and Guardian written around the time of the negotiation period of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention, the international treaty banning this form of warfare. We argue that a conventional discourse can be found wherein biol…
A Reputation for Parsimony to Uphold’
The course of the Anglo-American ‘special relationship’ in the 18 months after January 1969 is often overlooked, sandwiched between longer periods which seemingly brought to have seen significant strain and decline. The Labour government's decisions in 1967 to withdraw forces from the East of Suez military bases and to devalue the pound marked a watershed in the axis, and this article explores the changed dynamic under the new President, Richard …
Recrimination and reconciliation’
The ‘Yom Kippur War’ of October 1973 is thought to have triggered one of the most serious rifts in the history of the Anglo-American ‘special relationship’. The established view of events has been shaped most successfully by the writings of Henry Kissinger, US Secretary of State and National Security Advisor (NSA) at the time. However, this article argues that the reasons for Britain's reservations were understandable and that Kissinger's critici…
Allies Apart
Andrew Scott, Chippenham and Eastbourne, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, xi+255 pp., ISBN 978023028398 (£55.00) Allies Apart, an adaptation of Scott's doctoral thesis, follows two similar studies of rece
Edward Heath and Anglo–American Relations 1970–1974
As British Prime Minister, Edward Heath is generally believed to have presided over a distinct cooling in Anglo– American relations. His frosty personality, use of the term “natural”—instead of “special”—relationship, and determination to re-orient British foreign policy towards the European Community are felt to have deliberately foreclosed a more intimate partnership with the administration of Richard Nixon. This interpretation is captured most…
Edward Heath and Anglo–American Relations 1970–1974
As British Prime Minister, Edward Heath is generally believed to have presided over a distinct cooling in Anglo– American relations. His frosty personality, use of the term “natural”—instead of “special”—relationship, and determination to re-orient British foreign policy towards the European Community are felt to have deliberately foreclosed a more intimate partnership with the administration of Richard Nixon. This interpretation is captured most…
Recrimination and reconciliation’
The ‘Yom Kippur War’ of October 1973 is thought to have triggered one of the most serious rifts in the history of the Anglo-American ‘special relationship’. The established view of events has been shaped most successfully by the writings of Henry Kissinger, US Secretary of State and National Security Advisor (NSA) at the time. However, this article argues that the reasons for Britain's reservations were understandable and that Kissinger's critici…
A Reputation for Parsimony to Uphold’
The course of the Anglo-American ‘special relationship’ in the 18 months after January 1969 is often overlooked, sandwiched between longer periods which seemingly brought to have seen significant strain and decline. The Labour government's decisions in 1967 to withdraw forces from the East of Suez military bases and to devalue the pound marked a watershed in the axis, and this article explores the changed dynamic under the new President, Richard …
Edward Heath and Anglo–American Relations 1970–1974
As British Prime Minister, Edward Heath is generally believed to have presided over a distinct cooling in Anglo– American relations. His frosty personality, use of the term “natural”—instead of “special”—relationship, and determination to re-orient British foreign policy towards the European Community are felt to have deliberately foreclosed a more intimate partnership with the administration of Richard Nixon. This interpretation is captured most…
Recrimination and reconciliation’
The ‘Yom Kippur War’ of October 1973 is thought to have triggered one of the most serious rifts in the history of the Anglo-American ‘special relationship’. The established view of events has been shaped most successfully by the writings of Henry Kissinger, US Secretary of State and National Security Advisor (NSA) at the time. However, this article argues that the reasons for Britain's reservations were understandable and that Kissinger's critici…
Allies Apart
Andrew Scott, Chippenham and Eastbourne, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, xi+255 pp., ISBN 978023028398 (£55.00) Allies Apart, an adaptation of Scott's doctoral thesis, follows two similar studies of rece
A Reputation for Parsimony to Uphold’
The course of the Anglo-American ‘special relationship’ in the 18 months after January 1969 is often overlooked, sandwiched between longer periods which seemingly brought to have seen significant strain and decline. The Labour government's decisions in 1967 to withdraw forces from the East of Suez military bases and to devalue the pound marked a watershed in the axis, and this article explores the changed dynamic under the new President, Richard …
Preventing ‘A Virological Hiroshima’
This article examines representations of biological weapons during a crucial period in the recent history of this form of warfare. The study draws on a corpus of newspaper articles from the US New York Times and the UK Times and Guardian written around the time of the negotiation period of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention, the international treaty banning this form of warfare. We argue that a conventional discourse can be found wherein biol…
Driven to Tears”
This analysis considers a controversy over whether the 1925 Geneva Protocol, the treaty prohibiting the use of chemical and biological weapons in warfare, covered CS “tear gas.” Widespread deployment of tear gases by American forces in Vietnam after 1964 attracted much international criticism as many believed the Protocol banned such agents and pressure gradually built on the British government to clarify its interpretative position. Its tabling …
The Wilson-Johnson Correspondence, 1964–69
Simon Smith has conducted diligent research in the UK National Archives, Harold Wilson's private papers, and the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library among other sources, emerging with a collection of bilateral correspondence published in one place for the first time (some of the material is also available in the relevant 1964–1968 Foreign Relations of the United States series). Smith builds on research done on this era by the likes of Jonathan Colman a…
Who Said Chemical Warfare
This article explores the Nixon administration's resubmission to the U.S. Senate of the Geneva Protocol: the 1925 treaty that prohibited use of chemical and biological weapons in warfare. Extensive use of Riot Control Agents (RCAs) and plant herbicides by U.S. forces in the Vietnam War had attracted much international criticism alleging that such substances were banned by the Protocol and contravened international law. The ratification initiative…
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