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Ursula Lehmkuhl. Pax Anglo-Americana: Machtstrukturelle Grundlagen anglo-amerikanischer Asien- und Fernostpolitik in den 1950er Jahren. (Studien zur internationalen Geschichte, number 7.) Munich: R. Oldenbourg. 1999. Pp. 304.

After a visit to the United States in the summer of 1942, British Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Richard Law warned his government in London that the United States would not assume international responsibility for maintaining peace after the war if that implied accepting British leadership. Law was aware that America would become the dominant power in the postwar world, but he was also hopeful that England would continue to play an important international role. His American counterparts had stated repeatedly that Anglo-American cooperation would be essential for a complete solution of the problems of postwar reconstruction. 1

In her book, Ursula Lehmkuhl returns to Law's wartime predictions. The United States did become the undisputed leader of the Western world but maintained a "special relationship" with Great Britain. Lehmkuhl seeks to explain the foundations of that relationship and to show how Britain used its close ties with the United States to maintain great power status after World War II, despite its serious economic and military predicament. . . .

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