1 Introduction -- 2 Turning the Telescope Around: The Anglo-American 'Special' Economic Relationship in the 'Post-American' World -- 3 Irish-US Economic Relations: End of an Era of a Promising Future? -- 4 American Investment in Ireland: Strategies, Incentives and Perspectives -- 5 The Role of Finance in US-UK Relations Today and Its Global Influence -- 6 Albion's Global Reach: British Influences on US and EU Financial Regulation in the 1980s and the Era of the 'Great Recession' -- 7 British and American Monetary Policies Convergence: Structural Coincidence of Transatlantic Mutual Influence? -- 8 The US and UK (1970-2010): Ordinary Trading Partners? -- 9 Transatlantic Service Trade and Investment: Dynamics of and Challenges to the 'Special Relationship' in the 21st Century -- 10 Irish-Owned Exporting Companies: Looking East, Looking South but Still Going West.

This book revisits the economic relationship that ties the UK and Ireland to the United States in the aftermath of the greatest economic crisis of the past fifty years. When considering recent developments to these economic links, it appears that oppositional forces are at work. On one hand, globalization and the rise of new economic powers may undermine the ties. Besides, Ireland's and the UK's European Union membership could also loosen their economic ties with the US. Conversely, the future Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreement may well strengthen trade and investment links between the US and Europe. Are the economic bonds between the US, the UK and Ireland waning, as some pundits purport? Or are those claims overstated? Could their economic relationship simply be going through a process of change? Although there may not be a single and straightforward answer to these questions, the authors seek to address these issues and provide insight into the changing dynamics of this historic economic relationship.