Assassination from MLK to Mrs T: Contrast and Convergence in the United States and Britain

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State response to assassination conspiracies is a reality behind diplomacy. This examination analyses British and American responses to assassination from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s. It argues the United States and Britain began with very different cultures of assassination. The 1980s was a period of structural convergence driven by practical collaboration: it had little to do with a longstanding ‘special relationship’, the Second Cold War, or relations between Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.

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Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Ball, S https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9744-610X
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© 2022 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
Dates:	Published: 2 January 2022 Published (online): 6 March 2022 Accepted: 11 February 2022
Institution:	The University of Leeds
Academic Units:	The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of History (Leeds)
Depositing User:	Symplectic Publications
Date Deposited:	24 Feb 2022 11:07
Last Modified:	11 Mar 2022 14:19
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Routledge
Identification Number:	10.1080/09592296.2022.2041808
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:184066

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