Abstract

This article argues that British soft power is a hitherto under-recognised factor in explaining the survival and changing character of the Anglo-American special relationship during the so-called long-1970s. First, the long-term interpenetration of UK and US soft power became a shared resource that British and American governments used to cohere their bilateral relations and provided for a ‘common cast of mind’ that facilitated high levels of policy congruence. Second, the particular international and domestic political changes that occurred during the long 1970s elevated the relative importance of soft power and thereby gave the British, within American calculations of mutual utility, a means of offsetting, in part at least, the relative decline of their hard power capabilities.

摘要

本文认为，在解释所谓的1970年代漫长的英美特殊关系的生存和变化特征时，英国的软实力是迄今未被充分认识的因素。首先，英美软实力的长期渗透成为英美两国政府用来巩固双边关系的共同资源，并为促进高水平的政策一致性提供了“共同的思路”。第二，1970年代漫长的特殊国际和国内政治变化提高了软实力的相对重要性，从而使英国在美国的共同效用计算中，至少部分抵消了其相对衰落的一种手段。硬电源功能。