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Acknowledgments . . vii
Introduction . . 1

I: Rights . . 19
1 Liberty and Rights in American and British Conservatism . . 21

II: Foreign Policy . . 43
2 New Directions in British Foreign Policy? . . 45
3 Conservative US Foreign Policy . . 63

III: Religion . . 79
4 Religion and Conservatism in the United Kingdom . . 81
5 The Religious Right in the United States: Obscured by Libertarianism? . . 99

IV: Economics . . 113
6 The British Conservative Party and Economic Policy: From Mrs. Thatcher to David Cameron . . 115
7 Free-Market Conservatives Faced with the Economic Crisis: The Paradox of a Revival in the United States . . 143

Conclusion . . 165
Index . . 173
About the Contributors . . 175