11 research outputs found
Comparing the Anglo-American and Israeli-American special relationships in the Obama era: an alliance persistence perspective
The Anglo-American and Israeli-American security relationships have proved to be unusually close and have confounded expectations that they would wither away with the changing international environment. In order to explain this, the article proposes a theory of âalliance persistenceâ that is based on reciprocity over shared geostrategic interests, sentimental attachments and institutionalized security relations. The article employs this theoretical framework to explore how Anglo-American and Israeli-American relations have developed during the Obama administration. It argues that the Anglo-American relationship has been closer because of the two countriesâ shared strategic interests, whilst the Israeli-American relationship has experienced divergences in how the security interests of the two sides have been pursued. The article concludes by assessing how the two relationships will fair in the post-Obama era and argues that there are numerous areas of tension in the US-Israeli relationship that risk future tensions.
Keywords: Alliance, US-UK, US-Israel, Special Relationship, Obam
The Geopolitics of the Iran Nuclear Negotiations
I sin geopolitiske analyse av atomvÄpenforhandlingene i Iran, pÄpeker Charles W. Freeman at Iran i praksis har de samme uvennene i MidtÞsten som Vesten har, om enn ikke de samme vennene. En avtale vil gi en bedre sjanse bÄde for landene i og utenfor regione Ä samles i en felles innsats mot ekstremisme. En avtale trenger nÞdvendigvis ikke Ä medfÞre at dette lykkes, men uten, vil mulighetene vÊre ikke-eksisterende. Enda en forlengelse av forhandlingsfristen vil fullstendig mangle troverdighet, og vil til en viss grad gi de samme negative konsekvensene som mislykket avtale ville gi