Anglo‐American Understanding and the Boer War

Knee, Stuart E.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8497.1984.tb00572.x

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“…30 30 On the ebb and flow of American interpretations of the Boers during the war, see Anderson (1981), Knee (1984), Knuth (1958), Kramer (2002) and Mulanax (1994). …”

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A Racialized Peace? How Britain and the US Made Their Relationship Special

Vučetić

2011

Foreign Policy Analysis

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The extensive literature on the Anglo-American ''special relationship'' revolves around an observation that Britain and the US tend to cooperate more closely than any other comparable pair of states. I argue that this cooperation pattern originates in the construction of a ''racialized peace'' between the American and British empires at the fin-de-siècle. My argument builds on constructivist theorizations of the links among state ⁄ national identity, foreign policy, and international conflict ⁄ cooperation. Beginning with a discourse analysis of representative texts from the period leading up to the Venezuela crisis of 1895-96, I show how American and British elites succeeded in framing themselves as the vanguards of civilization and how the idea that two Anglo-Saxon entities could not fight each other in a global political system defined by race had significant consequences in world politics.

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“…30 30 On the ebb and flow of American interpretations of the Boers during the war, see Anderson (1981), Knee (1984), Knuth (1958), Kramer (2002) and Mulanax (1994). …”

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