Still Special??

Still ‘special’?

Trump and the Anglo-American Relationship

A Roundtable

Tuesday 7^th November 2017

6-8pm

Tech Hub Lecture Theatre

The Trump presidency continues to send shockwaves around the globe and has forced almost every nation to reassess its relationship with the world’s most powerful yet highly unpredictable executive. The knee-jerk outbursts of Trump and the general lack of clarity over America’s international role has bred confusion amongst the superpower’s friends as well as its foes. Not least among the bemused onlookers is perhaps America’s closest post-1945 ally, the United Kingdom. Since assuming office, both President Trump and Prime Minister May have asserted that relations between the two countries remain ‘special’, yet precious little has been advanced to show what these statements mean in real terms. As Britain struggles to adjust its relations with continental Europe, its relationship with the USA, over such key matters as trade, foreign policy, immigration, and climate change seems even more crucial yet is also just as uncertain. This roundtable will discuss to what extent the Anglo-American relationship can still be – if indeed it ever was – considered ‘special’.

Chair: Professor Kevern Verney, Associate Dean (Research), Edge Hill University

Dr Robert Busby, Senior Lecturer in American History, Liverpool Hope University

Paula Keaveney, Senior Lecturer in Politics & Public Relations, Edge Hill University

Dr Paddy Hoey, Senior Lecturer in Media, Edge Hill University

Dr Charlie Whitham, Senior Lecturer in American History, Edge Hill University

Please come and add to the debate: all welcome, Refreshments will be available