This book marries the disciplines of international relations and diplomatic history to provide a major new study of the GATT system in the 1960s. Using recently declassified British and American government documents, the key role British diplomats played at the Kennedy round is identified. Through the close ties that characterize the Anglo-American relationship, the British influenced American policy and strategy in the negotiations. The evidence of this study challenges realist theories of middle power influence in the international political economy by demonstrating the determining role of state-level factors such as diplomatic skill and policy expertise. Further, finding evidence of the continuing importance of Anglo-American relations to American and British foreign policy interests, the book will encourage debate on the question of whether the so-called 'special relationship' was, to use former US Secretary of State Dean Acheson's phrase, 'played out' in the 1960s.

List of Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
Middle Power Influence in the International System
Background to the Kennedy Trade Round
The Formative Stage, 1962-4
Non-Grains Agriculture
The IGA and Industrial Tariff Issues
The Final Stage, 1967
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

DONNA LEE is Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Leicester. She previously taught at Manchester Metropolitan University where she undertook her doctoral research. She has recently had articles published in the Review of International Studies, and the Review of International Political Economy.