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Paper: The Trump Shock to the Anglo-American Special Relationship

发布时间:2019年06月27日 14:41  

Author: Xu Ruike

Source: Global Review No.3 2019


ABSTRACT: There have been three key factors contributing to the long-lasting Anglo-American special relationship, which are as follows: the strong sense of common identity, the long-term reciprocal cooperation, and the highly institutionalized security cooperation mechanisms. The strong sense of common identity facilitates America and Britain’s recognition of common interests and common threat, and also helps consolidate strategic trust. The long-term reciprocal cooperation promotes both sides’ appreciation of the other’s strategic values and thereby contributes to their solidarity. The highly institutionalized security cooperation mechanisms facilitate the formation of good habits of cooperation within the US-UK security relationship and solidify interdependence between the two countries. Given recurrent collisions between the “Global Britain” concept and the Trumpism and Trump’s controversial immigration policies, the Anglo-American common identity has been damaged. There have been more conflicting interests between the May government and the Trump administration in areas of global governance. Combined with the UK’s diminishing strategic values to the United States in the post-Brexit era, the Anglo-American reciprocal cooperative relationship has thus been weakened to some degree. Nevertheless, the highly institutionalized Anglo-American intelligence, nuclear, and military relationships have remained as intimate as before, thereby helping maintain the Anglo-American special relationship. China should be clearly aware of the fact that the Anglo-American special relationship will continue to exert constraints on the UK’s China policy, making it difficult for China and the UK to broaden and deepen their security cooperation. 

KEYWORDS: Trump doctrine, Global Britain, Brexit, Anglo-American security cooperation


Editor: Huang Dong

Editor in charge: Liao Kai




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